A fresh new voice in American fiction, Greg Ames is a writer to watch! His first book, BUFFALO LOCKJAW hits bookshelves everywhere April 1, 2009.
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- Affiliation:
- Hyperion Books
- Location:
- Brooklyn, NY
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McNally Jackson Books
Wednesday, April 15 at 7:00pm - Meet Greg Ames, Author of BUFF...
Borders / Cheektowaga, NY
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Talking Leaves
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Villa Maria College
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Barnes & Noble / Amherst, NY
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Barnes & Noble / Park Slope
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Greg Ames Ames knows how to build up the world with a light hand while still getting to the complicated and painful ways we muddle through. Funny, fresh, and generous. --Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Greg Ames Buffalo Lockjaw is a knowing, finely crafted debut novel, capable of rousing empathy, identification, pain, and even laughter. An altogether winning novel. --Booklist
Greg Ames In this beautifully observed debut, a son wrestles with the possibility of assisted suicide for his mother, stricken with Alzheimer's. Ames skillfully counterpoints nursing-home visits with boozy reunions with old friends and sprinkles in interviews with
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"Buffalo Lockjaw, like its charming, bitter screw-up of a narrator, reaches finally for larger meaning, and succeeds...A brazen and tender book about a city and a scene, a mother and a son, and the beauty and pain of several kinds of love."
---Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land
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