Jonathan Ames

In this darkly humorous detective story, plagued by death on his conscience, Happy Doll has committed himself to a simple, spiritual life; that is, until a tragic and brutal murder forces his hand and sets him back on the bloody path of retribution and justice. After narrowly escaping with his...

The eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case in this second installment of a series "that's a tightly coiled double helix of offbeat humor and unflinching violence" (New York Times Book Review). Although badly scarred and down to his last kidney...

Now a major motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here is a gritty, harrowing story of corruption and one man's violent quest for vengeance. Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, his abusive childhood has left him damaged beyond...

In this deliciously noir novel from the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll embarks on a 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...

Alan Blair, the hero of Wake Up, Sir!, is a young, loony writer with numerous problems of the mental, emotional, sexual, spiritual, and physical variety....

Perhaps all of Jonathan Ames' problems, and the genesis of this hilarious audiobook, can be traced back to the late onset of his puberty....

Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero....

Ames looks beneath the surface of our world to find the beauty in the perverse, the sweetness in loneliness, and the humor in pain....

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...

Joe è un ex marine e un ex agente dell'FBI che ha visto troppe scene del crimine e conosciuto troppi traumi, e non solo nella sua vita...

Che stia dando la caccia agli scarafaggi che infestano il suo appartamento, baciando una bellissima attrice sul set di un film di...

Questo libro è uno scontro epocale tra le due personalità del suo autore: il romanziere che ha scritto "Sveglia, Sir!" e "lo e Henry"...

Dopo il ritratto di Alan Blair in "Sveglia, Sir!" e quello autobiografico di "Veloce come la notte", Ames si mette a nudo senza pudore...

Louis Ives è un giovane professore di belle speranze, romantico, colto e desideroso di somigliare ai personaggi di Fitzgerald e Maugham...

Quando Alexander Vine alla fine della giornata abbandona la divisa da doorman dell'esclusivo ristorante del FourSeasons di New York, la...