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La carrera como profesor de inglés de Louis Ives se ve interrumpida inesperadamente cuando lo pillan en la sala de profesores llevando un sujetador de una compañera de trabajo. Escapa a Nueva York, donde acaba compartiendo piso con Henry Harrison, un caballero de mediana edad que enseña a Louis cómo actuar y sobrevivir en la ciudad (con métodos más bien poco ortodoxos) y cómo ganar dinero acompañando mujeres mayores de alto poder adquisitivo....
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Jonathan Ames has drawn comparisons across the literary spectrum, from David Sedaris to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Woody Allen to P.G. Wodehouse, and his books, as well as his abilities as a performer, have made him a favorite on the Late Show with David Letterman. Whether he's chasing deranged cockroaches around his apartment, kissing a beautiful actress on the set of an avant-garde film, finding himself stuck perilously on top of a fence in Memphis...
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Wildly original novelist, essayist, and performance artist Jonathan Ames delivers a hilarious, risqué, and loveable selection of articles, essays, and fiction, including several previously unpublished pieces.
In The Double Life Is Twice as Good, fans will be treated to a deft and charming compilation of Ames's journalism, personal essays, and short fiction. Featuring illuminating profiles of Marilyn Manson and Lenny Kravitz, his adventures at a...
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Un héroe cuya arma favorita es un martillo... claramente tiene problemas
Joe es un ex marine y ex agente del FBI, solitario y perseguido, que prefiere ser invisible. No se permite ni amigos ni amantes y se gana la vida rescatando jóvenes de las garras de los tratantes de blancas.
Un político lo contrata para que rescate a su hija de un burdel de Manhattan, y entonces Joe descubre una intrincada red de corrupción que llega a lo más alto. Cuando...
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Jonathan Ames, creador de la serie "Bored to Death", ofrece su mejor colección de textos hasta la fecha, entre ellos el relato que dio origen a la célebre serie televisiva de la HBO. Esta colección de artículos, ensayos y relatos es arriesgada, hilarante, literaria y, sobre todo, increíblemente original.
Los seguidores de Ames disfrutarán con esta mezcla de artículos periodísticos, ensayos y relatos cortos. Hallarán en este libro pequeñas...
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Alan Blair es un joven y disparatado escritor con problemas mentales, emocionales, sexuales, espirituales y físicos. De hecho, a Alan se le da muy bien acumular problemas. Por fortuna, cuenta con Jeeves, un ayuda de cámara eficiente y leal que hace todo lo posible por evitar que se meta en líos.
Alan vive en casa de sus tíos, pero cuando estos le dicen que no puede quedarse con ellos si sigue bebiendo, emprende junto a Jeeves un esperpéntico...
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208, 9 pages ; 22 cm
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From the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, a deliciously noir novel about idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll and his quest to help a dying friend in a sun-blinded Los Angeles as "quirky, edgy, charming, funny and serious" as its protagonist (Lee Child). Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff drop beneath the Hollywood sign with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. A veteran...
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216 pages ; 22 cm
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Although badly scarred and down to his last kidney after the previous caper, Happy Doll is back in business. When a beguiling young woman turns up at his door, it's Doll's past that comes knocking. Mary DeAngelo is searching for her estranged mother, Ines Candle--a singular and troubled woman Doll once loved. The last he'd seen her she'd been near-death: arms slit like envelopes. Although she survived the episode, she vanished shortly thereafter....
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The basis for the HBO® Original Series starring Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover), and Ted Danson, Bored to Death is a Raymond Chandleresque tale of a struggling Brooklyn writer-curiously named Jonathan Ames-who, in a moment of odd whimsy and boredom, becomes a private detective after spontaneously posting an ad on craigslist. As a rank amateur who just thinks he can help, this Ames alter ego quickly becomes embroiled...
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97 pages ; 21 cm
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Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, his abusive childhood has left him damaged beyond repair. He has completely withdrawn from the world and earns his living rescuing girls who have been kidnapped into the sex trade. When he's hired to save the daughter of a corrupt New York senator held captive at a Manhattan brothel, he stumbles into a dangerous web of conspiracy, and he pays the price. As Joe's small web...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Meet Jonathan Ames: writer, romantic, unlicensed private detective. Moonlighting from his job as a novelist and writer for a New York magazine, Jonathan is looking to jettison some heavy emotional baggage (his girlfriend just dumped him, okay?) through an unusual second career of cracking cases of missing persons, espionage and infidelity in the Big Apple.
Running from his emotional baggage, a novelist and writer for a New York magazine moonlights...
12) The extra man
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Aspiring playwright Louis Ives moves to New York, taking an environmental job with a beautiful, infatuating co-worker. Louis rents a room from an eccentric former playwright who moonlights as an 'extra man, ' a social escort for the wealthy widows of Manhattan high society. The two men develop a volatile mentorship, which leads to a series of comic adventures.
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.