The Extra Man A Novel Author:Jonathan Ames Meet Louis Ives: well groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Only this hero has a penchant for ladies? clothes, and he?s lost his teaching post at Princeton?s Pretty Brook Day School after an unfortunate incident involving a colleague?s brassiere.Meet Henry Harrison: former actor, failed but brilliant playwright, a... more »nd a well-seasoned escort for New York City?s women of means. He dances alone to Ethel Merman records, second-acts operas, and performs his scrappy life with the dignity befitting a self-styled man of the world. What can this ageless Don Quixote of the Upper East Side have to offer a young gentleman such as Louis? What, indeed.Well, the answer lies somewhere between the needs of an irascible mentor and the education of his eager apprentice . . . between cocktails on the Upper East Side and an even more intoxicating treat along the secret fringes of Times Square . . . and between friendship and longing.« less