Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( J ) : Janowitz, Tama

Shop Categories

...( J )

Slaves of New York (Bloomsbury Classic Reads)

Tama Janowitz
Hear That ?

Tama Janowitz

Maybe it's a mouse. Maybe it's a wombat. It may even be a walrus trying to escape from the refrigerator! As a mother and child wonder what each click, knock, and rattle in their house could possibly be, each guess gets wilder and wilder in this fantastic flight of imagination by novelist Tama Janowitz. Witty pictures and a clever text, chock-full of sounds, make this a perfect read-aloud. Young readers will be begging to Hear That? over and over again!
Peyton Amberg: A Novel

Tama Janowitz

In her sizzling new novel, Tama Janowitz moves beyond the world of the single woman (Slaves of New York, A Certain Age), and now targets a young woman growing ever restless in her marriage, and ever hopeful that the next bed will produce someone more exciting. As she moves from man to man, Peyton Amberg slowly but surely loses her youthfulness, her good looks, even her sanity, as her paramours become rougher and the sex more dangerous.

A savvy riff on the classic figure of Madam Bovary, Peyton Amberg is a caustic and brilliant satire of contemporary marriage as it is undermined by free-floating lust and exploits of a woman yearning for fulfillment outside of rigid societal structure.

Peyton Amberg is nasty, funny, jaundiced, sarcastic, searingly honest, and mesmerizing from beginning to end.
A Certain Age: A Novel

Tama Janowitz
Area Code 212: New York Days, New York Nights

Tama Janowitz

Welcome to the wonderful world of Tama Janowitz, one of New York's wittiest social chroniclers. Area Code 212 is filled with idiosyncratic delights and oddities, including her hilarious account of Andy Warhol's 1980s blind date club; her brief moment of celebrity as an elderly teenage extra in a ZZ Top video; the day she tested mentally retarded on an IQ test; and many other revealing tales of New York life, including its parties, its restaurants, and its fashion. Janowitz gives us her unique lowdown on her 1990s conversion from Manhattan to Brooklyn, on observing the Twin Towers come down from her apartment roof, on hairless dogs and ferrets, babies, the outer boroughs, big-hair days and bad-hair days.

Above all, the humor and insights of Area Code 212 will not only appeal to all of those who live in New York City, but also to those from around the country who have a fascination with what it is like to thrive in the urban mecca.

Self-deprecating, funny, and touching, Area Code 212 is an irresistible collection of essays.
The Male Cross-dresser Support Group

Tama Janowitz

While dealing with persistent male co-workers and a social-climbing boss, Manhattanite Pamela Trowell becomes a reluctant surrogate mother to a lost boy. By the author of Slaves of New York and American Dad. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee

Tama Janowitz
American Dad (Picador Books)

Tama Janowitz
Area Code 212

Tama Janowitz
A Cannibal in Manhattan

Tama Janowitz
Cannibal in Manhattan: Tama Janowitz

Tama Janowitz
A Certain Age

Tama Janowitz
These Are the Eyes

Tama Janowitz

My nine year old daughter is always asking impossible questions, "Mom, which would you rather lose, your ability to hear or to see?" I wouldn't want to lose either ability but I would have to pick a hearing loss over vision. My biggest fear when traveling is that the plane will be stuck on the runway for eleven hours and I will run out of things to read. Sometimes in the elevator I feel the braille indicating each floor and I realize I would never be able at my age to learn braille; and with my Degree of Paranoia, I am sure I would always think people were playing tricks behind my back. Even if I couldn't hear them, I could still see what they were up to. My latest book is a collection of non-fiction essays entitled AREA CODE 212, about life in New York City over the past twenty years. My most recent novel, PEYTON AMBERG is out in paperback from St.Martin's/Griffin.