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From: The Jerusalem Report
Date: 20041004
Author:Lev Raphael

Wake Up, Sir! By Jonathan Ames - Scribner 334 pp.; $23 What happens when you graft the style of P.G. Wodehouse onto a novel of Jewish artistic neurosis? Lev Raphael Alan Blair is a lonely, insecure alcoholic, a weirdo who does yoga in a tie The word "straightish" summed up the very confused young hero of Jonathan Ames's clever and offbeat first novel, "The Extra Man" (1998): Louis Ives wasn't exactly straight or gay. Ives also found his Jewish identity to be a source of deep shame: He not only didn't want to be Jewish, he didn't want people to even think he was Jewish. Though he ...

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