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Jonathan Ames

ジョナサン・エイムズ

Jonasan Emuzu

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1964-03-23 （New York City）
国籍
American
言語
English
宗教
Judaism
居住地歴
Oakland, New Jersey → New York City

経歴

職業
Novelist, television showrunner, columnist
活動期間
1989年〜
影響を受けた人物
Charles Bukowski

学歴

Indian Hills High School
国: United States
Princeton University
English
学位: BA
卒業年: 1987
国: United States
Senior thesis: Eye Pity Eye: (The Collected Writings of Alexander Vine)
Columbia University
Fiction
学位: MFA
国: United States

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

I Pass Like Night

1989年 literary fiction

Ames's debut novel about loneliness and nighttime New York.

lonelinesssexual misadventures

The Extra Man

1998年 literary fiction

Story of a young man who becomes an escort to an elderly gentleman.

identityhomosexuality
映像化・舞台化
  • [film] The Extra Man / Mark Brokaw (2010)

Wake Up, Sir!

2004年 literary fiction

Comedy about an aspiring novelist with a butler.

butlerwriting

You Were Never Really Here

2013年 thriller

A traumatized man on a rescue mission.

violencetrauma
映像化・舞台化
  • [film] You Were Never Really Here / Lynne Ramsay (2018)

全著作

  • I Pass Like Night (1989)
  • The Extra Man (1998)
  • Wake Up, Sir! (2004)
  • You Were Never Really Here (2013/2018)
  • A Man Named Doll (2021)
  • The Wheel of Doll (2022)
  • Karma Doll (2025)
  • What's Not to Love? (2000)
  • My Less Than Secret Life (2002)
  • I Love You More Than You Know (2006)
  • The Double Life Is Twice As Good (2009)
  • Sexual Metamorphosis (2005)
  • The Alcoholic (2008)

作風・主題

文体
self-deprecating humorgritty style like Charles Bukowski
頻出モチーフ
sexual misadventuresboxingneuroses

評価・遺産

American author and creator of TV series known for self-deprecating essays and comedic novels.

大衆文化への影響

  • Creator of HBO's Bored to Death and Starz's Blunt Talk

豆知識

  • Has one child.
  • Boxing enthusiast known as 'The Herring Wonder'.