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Jonathan Ames: You Were Never Really Here Jonathan Ames: You Were Never Really Here

A ​hero whose favorite weapon is a hammer clearly has issues. Lots of them.

Novelist, essayist, and creator of the beloved HBO series „Bored to Death,” Jonathan Ames is celebrated not only for his comic sensibilities and devotion to the absurd but for his lurid attraction to inner demons. In this shocking and suspenseful new novella, the author goes darker than noir, with an ass-kicking and psychologically tormented guardian angel who rescues others but refuses to save himself.

A former Marine and ex–FBI agent, Joe has seen one too many crime scenes and known too much trauma, and not just in his professional life. Solitary and haunted, he prefers to be invisible. He doesn't allow himself friends or lovers and makes a living rescuing young girls from the deadly clutches of the sex trade. But when a high-ranking New York politician hires him to extricate his teenage daughter from a Manhattan brothel, Joe uncovers a web of corruption that even he may not be able to… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2013

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Vintage, London, 2018
112 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780525562894
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Byliner, 2013
48 oldal · ASIN: B00AWZDFNC

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Szereplők népszerűség szerint

Joe


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It was a mournful face, a self-involved face, with a thick forehead, another weapon, and his jaw was too big and long, like the spade of a shovel. When he passed security cameras he tucked it in. The black baseball hat that he always wore hid the rest of his face, which in its entirety was not ugly but not handsome. It was something else. It was a mask that if he could tear off he would. He was aware that he was not completely sane, so he kept himself in rigid check, playing both jailer and prisoner.

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Joe knew that clients needed to ask questions, that vetting him in this way gave them a sense of control, even if it was illusory, because, of course, there was no control. Not for anybody.

Kapcsolódó szócikkek: Joe
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…he holed up in a motel for two weeks in a state of deep paranoia, until he came up with a plan, a solution, a way to live, which was to get very small and very quiet and leave no wake. So he had to be pure. He had to be holy. He had to be contained.


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