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What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer

Jonathan Ames

Perhaps all of Jonathan Ames' problems-and the genesis of this hilarious book-can be traced back to the late onset of his puberty. After all it can't be easy to be sixteen with a hairless "undistinguishable from that of a five year old's."

This wonderfully entertaining memoir is a touching and humorous look at life in New York City. But this is life for an author who can proclaim "my first sexual experience was rather old-fashioned: it was with a prostitute"-an author who can talk about his desire to be a model for the Hair Club for Men and about meeting his son for the first time.

Often insightful, sometimes tender, always witty and self-deprecating, What's Not to Love? is an engaging memoir from one of our most funny, most daring writers.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Publish Date: Aug 7th, 2001
  • Pages: 288
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.02in - 5.28in - 0.62in - 0.53lb
  • EAN: 9780375726491
  • Categories: Literary FiguresForm - EssaysMen's Studies

About the Author

Jonathan Ames lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Praise for this book

"Hilarious.... Jonathan Ames has... an unusual ability to take crack-smoking, balding and Oedipal fixation and whip them up into an elegant, comic meringue."-The New York Times Book Review

"Ludicrously funny... disconcerting and refreshingly frank."-The Denver Post

"A mixture of unbridled libido and hopeless romanticism.... [It] soar[s] with Ames' original wit and generous spirit."-Entertainment Weekly