Story of My Life by Jay Mcinerney
Originally published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1988, and now reissued by Grove Press, The Story of My Life by Jay McInerney is a hilarious, sobering portrait of 1980s New York City featuring twenty-something actress Alison Poole and her coterie of club-hopping, coke-addicted friends. In this breathlessly paced novel, McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. Alison Poole is a budding actress already fatally well versed in hopping the clubs, shopping Chanel, falling in and out of lust, and abusing other people's credit cards. As Alison races toward emotional breakdown, McInerney gives us a funny yet oddly touching portrait of a postmodern Holly Golightly coming to terms with a world in which everything is permitted and nothing really matters.Jay McInerney lives in Manhattan and Bridgehampton, New York. He writes a wine column for The Wall Street Journal and is a regular contributor to The Guardian and Corriere della Sera, and his fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, Granta, and The Paris Review. In 2006, Time cited Bright Lights, Big City as one of nine generation-defining novels of the twentieth century, and The Good Life received the Prix Litteraire at the Deauville Film Festival in 2007. How It Ended: New and Collected Stories (2009) reminds us, Sam Tanenhaus wrote in The New York Times Book Review, how impressively broad McInerney's scope has been and how confidently he has ranged across wide swaths of our national experience.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780871132383 |
| ISBN 10 | 0871132389 |
| Title | Story of My Life |
| Author | Jay Mcinerney |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Year published | 1990-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 189 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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