A brilliant contemporary reimagining of the greatest comic
relationship of all time, which goes far beyond pastiche to places
even Wodehouse couldn't. 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. He's very good
at problems. But luckily for Alan, he has a personal valet named
Jeeves, who does his best to sort things out for his troubled
master. And Alan does find trouble wherever he goes. He embarks on
a perilous and bizarre road journey, his destination being an
artists colony in Saratoga Springs. There Alan encounters a
gorgeous femme fatale who is in possession of the most spectacular
nose in the history of noses. Such a nose can only lead to a wild
disaster for someone like Alan, and Jeeves tries to help him,
but... Well, read the book and find out! 'Too funny for the canon
of high literature, the book is too brilliant to be mere
diversionary humour' New York Press Jonathan Ames's latest comic
novel is so brilliant and charming that any description of it is
bound to be impossibly dull by comparison Seattle Weekly 'A
Wodehouse novel for the recovery era' The New York Times Book
Review 'What do you get when you cross Carry On, Jeeves with
Portnoy's Complaint? . . . Jonathan Ames's very funny new novel,
Wake Up, Sir!' Newsday 'The X-rated Woody Allen'Guardian 'Ames is a
remarkable comic writer. He excels at punching out hilarious
monologues on subjects ranging from nose fetishes to the planks of
Buddhism' Time Out New York Cause for celebration... As Jeeves
himself might prompt Ames, 'Carry on, sir!'' Washington Post
Pungent and hilarious, if completely off the deep end' Kirkus
Reviews Jonathan Ames is the author of the novels Wake Up, Sir!,
The Extra Man, and I Pass Like Night; a graphic novel, The
Alcoholic, and the essay collections I Love You More Than You Know,
My Less Than Secret Life, and What's Not to Love? He is the winner
of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a former columnist for New York
Press. Ames performs frequently as a storyteller and has been a
recurring guest on David Letterman. He has fought in two amateur
boxing matches as "The Herring Wonder," and he has peformed in a
number of shows. Ames had the lead role in the IFC film The Girl
Under the Waves, was a porn-extra in the porn film C-Men, and
played himself in a pilot episode for the Showtime network. At the
time, he said, "It's the role I've been waiting for!" He lives in
Brooklyn, New York.
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