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A razor-sharp satire of today's wildest mores unabashedly unleashed on Craigslist! Casualty of the financial crisis, alone and with nothing, a New York girl starts to live vicariously through Craigslist where she quickly runs into trouble. "An entertaining page turner with great tempo in a seamless merging of the latest book blogs trend (Sleeping Naked is Green) and Bridget Jones Diary. Originality: 5 stars" Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Review.
Meet Emily Thompson, 25, quirky, with a keen eye for contemporary art. One year after she moves to the trendy East Village in New York City, where she lands a job in an art gallery and an artist boyfriend, her life is thrown in an uproar when she loses everything. Suddenly alone, Emily starts to live vicariously through Craigslist and for the most part nothing works. A roommate who is rarely home, turns out to be an escort, which makes Emily get on her high moral horse, but later, when Emily herself becomes an escort for a day things spiral out of control…A book about survival in dog-eat-dog New York City in a unique blend of angst and humor. More...
“In this quintessential New York story of a young woman’s search for her true self, Emily looks for love and work in some mighty wrong and amusing places. The friends she picks up along the way are rakishly entertaining and so much of what occurs is beautifully tied up. I adored it. The Apatow films don’t do it better. This book is a D-flawless diamond, small but utterly perfect.” Monique Raphel High, best-selling novelist
THE OTHER GIRL is a bare, slim, literary novel written in a minimalistic style and telling the story of a conversation. Life does this switching trick, giving you hope from one place, and satisfaction from another. Maxim Smirnov, a young Russian immigrant in New York dreams of becoming the next software billionaire like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and of moving in with his gorgeous girlfriend. In the meantime he has no home of his own, and sleeps like a gypsy on chairs and in his office. When his lover is reluctant to take him in, he ends up moving in with an older Italian girl Giordana Gatti, a reclusive film animator with a powerful personality and feminist ideas that clash with his macho upbringing. She is "the other girl" in more ways than one, and guards an old, secret, unrequited love story. How will her fierce spirit and masochistic passion reflect on his own future choices?
In a Sex in the City meets Thelma and Louise adventure, DREAM JUNKIES is about two New York women with different views about love and life, who embark on a picaresque, funny and touching trip to the West coast that will take unexpected turns.
A page turner where self-irony and lucidity blends wonderfully with lyrical interludes, DREAM JUNKIES, offers the reader a "deconstructed" view of today’s American Dream. After 7 years in Manhattan, with a job she loathes and many affairs from which there is always something missing, Kitty believes the American Dream is in truth, just a myth, and, overwhelmed with a feeling of up-rootedness, she decides to return to Europe. Yet, last minute, an eccentric girlfriend invites her to LA in a crazy trip that will change her life. A novel about love, friendship, deception and the difficulty experienced by artists to reinvent themselves in a new land, DREAM JUNKIES presents with startling subtlety the traps of dreams which are blinding us against reality. The book was first published in Europe and was a bestseller.
WAKING BEAUTY is a modern tragedy, a social vaudeville, and indirect a political play with an absurd and neo-feminist touch, coming from the tradition of Bertolt Brecht’s Three Penny Opera, Wendy Wasserstein’s Heidi Chronicles and David Hare’s Amy’s View. An atypical play that will take you on an unconventional journey in time, space, theater styles and performance techniques.
The play tells the unusual tale of Onda, the study of her quest for the right man and her own truth, starting in Eastern Europe right after the fall of communism and ending up in New York. It is about the changing aspirations and power of women in the last 20 years. The play revolves around the dynamic between Onda and her changing choices as a woman, from innocence to lust, sin, and redemption. It explores the power, traps, and limits of Beauty that we all love, crave, and are ready to kill for.
News and updates ***********************************************************************
March 1st 2012 - MY LIFE ON CRAIGSLISTis published in translation in Romanian as VIATA ME PE NET at the leading publishing house in Romania, Polirom, in the Chic collection, featuring authors like Hellen Fielding, Candace Bushnell and Lauren Weisberger. The media partner for the launch is the national monthly glossy magazine TABU.
February 20th 2012 - VIATA MEA PE NET(My Life on Craigslist) featured as the best book pick on the book blog of Andreea Marin Banica (the most famous TV and humanitarian personality of Romania, also a long time UNICEF Ambassador of Peace).
January 2012 - MY LIFE ON CRAIGSLIST received kudos from the Midwest Book Review.
November 1st - My Life on Craigslist is announced Best Books Award Finalist by USA Books in Los Angeles California.
November 1st - The November Issue of the Romanian glossy magazine TABU included Alexandra in the Top 25 of the most famous Romanian women living abroad, ranking her on the 12's place.
August 30th, 2011 - Signed contract with Polirom Publishing Housein Bucharest, Romania for the publication in translation of MY LIFE ON CRAIGSLIST, slated to appear in the spring of 2012.
February 25th, 2011 - Listen to the radio interview with Michael Dresser on the DresserAfterDark show.
February 24, 2011 - MY LIFE ON CRAIGSLIST was selected in the first cut of the AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARD 2011.
August 2008 - BUCHAREST - The first novel of Alexandra Ares, DREAM JUNKIES was translatedin Romanian by Larisa Copaceanu and published by the top publishing house in Romania, Eu, Polirom (www.polirom.ro) as VISATOARELE in a literary Romance collection featuring bestselling works by Sheila O'Flanagan, Ellen Feldman, Esther Freud, Brunonia Barry, Freya North, and Mauve Haran. The book was in the top three bestseller list for 5 weeks and was the bestseller of the week for both fiction and non fiction in the first week of August 2008. BUY HERE
Zeynep Nutku translated the play Waking Beauty by Alexandra Ares into Turkish for representation at the
State Theater in Istanbul.
August 2010 - BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
The premiere of a three one act plays show, The Men Store (Magazinul cu Barbati) at the Calderon Theater in Bucharest, directed by Mihai Popescu. Cast: Doina Ionescu, Alexandra Minghius, Gabriela Ionita and Alexandru Larion. A book with the same title containing short plays by Alexandra Ares was also launched.
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August 2008 - BUCHAREST - The first novel of Alexandra Ares, DREAM JUNKIES was translatedin Romanian by Larisa Copaceanu and published by the top publishing house in Romania, Eu, Polirom (
September/October 2009 - NEW YORK 
July 2010 - ISTANBUL, TURKEY
August 2010 - BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
