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What’s Not to Love?

The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer

The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer

By Jonathan Ames

By Jonathan Ames

By Jonathan Ames

By Jonathan Ames

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    About What’s Not to Love?

    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.

    About What’s Not to Love?

    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.

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    About Jonathan Ames

    Jonathan Ames is the author of I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What’s Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, and Wake Up, Sir! He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and lives in New York City,… More about Jonathan Ames

    About Jonathan Ames

    Jonathan Ames is the author of I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What’s Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, and Wake Up, Sir! He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and lives in New York City,… More about Jonathan Ames

    Product Details

    Category: Humor | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 07, 2001 | 288 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375726491

    Category: Humor | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 18, 2007 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780307430199

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    Praise

    “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

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