false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171309087m/96040.jpg 96040 3 "A storyteller of refreshing inventiveness and subtlety" <I>(San Francisco Chronicle),</I> Jonathan Ames has won critical raves for this delightful "comedy of impeccable manners with a debauched '90s spin" <I>(Elle).</I><P>Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Only this hero has a penchant for ladies clothes, and he's lost his teaching post at Princeton's Pretty Brook Day School after an unfortunate incident involving a colleague's brassiere.<P>Meet Henry Harrison: former actor, failed but brilliant playwright, and a well-seasoned escort for New York City's women of means. He dances alone to Ethel Merman records, second-acts operas, and performs his scrappy life with the dignity befitting a self-styled man of the world. What can this ageless Don Quixote of the Upper East Side have to offer a young gentleman such as Louis? What, indeed.<P>Well, the answer lies somewhere between the needs of an irascible mentor and the education of his eager apprentice...between cocktails on the Upper East Side and an even more intoxicating treat along the secret fringes of Times Square...and between friendship and longing.<P> 2719 1998 The Extra Man (Contemporary Classics (Washington Square Press)) total:342|5:72|4:130|3:110|2:23|1:7| 342 1263 486 43 3 0 false false Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 13:50:09 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 08:17:15 -0800 2009 I kept thinking that he was perhaps of a state of mind beyond eccentric, but there was also this constant underpinning of irony to everything he said which seemed to clearly indicate intelligence and sanity. He was conscious that he was outrageous, but he was also...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Mar 03 08:35:41 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 08:36:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Jan 22 07:05:10 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 07:23:24 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 21:52:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 22:04:01 -0800 2009 The Extra Man, I just about had an attack when I read the line "showered and blue-blazered" — appropriated for the unbelievably fantastic song "Mistaken for Strangers," by The National. Lead singer Matt Berninger later misat...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 19:59:59 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 20:15:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 18:27:23 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 18:33:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 11:38:01 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 22:28:44 -0700 2009
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Tried again the next day. Picked it up - read the first few pages - and got distracted by something else. Put the book down.

Came back another time, read the first few pages, but didn't get any further.

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