Louis Ives is going to "find himself" in New York City. This nice Jewish orphan from Princeton, NJ, likes to think of himself as a "young gentleman" of F. Scott Fitzgerald's description. However, Louis has just lost his job as a seventh-grade teacher at a posh private school, owing to his misappropriation and misuse of a colleague's brassiere, and he finds himself living with Henry Harrison in a dirty, fourth-floor, one-bedroom apartment uptown. Henry is an elderly eccentric whose avocation is acting as "the extra man" for wealthy elderly society ladies who live on the East Side. Louis lands a job telemarketing subscriptions to an ecological magazine by day, while by night he makes periodic attempts to establish his uncertain sexual orientation. The escapades of the two men, together and separately, make unbelievable but hilarious reading. Ames's second novel (after Pass Like Night, Random, 1990) is outrageous, yet his characters evoke sympathy and interest. Recommended for public libraries.AJoanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Coll. of Continuing Education Lib., Providence
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