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The author of "Bright Lights, Big City" here zeros in on one section of 1980s Manhattan culture which is burning itself out even as it ignites. Beautiful, blunt, world-weary and 20, Alison is the reader's guide to the group indulgence and parental indifference that conspire against her.
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"Jay McInerney has proven himself not only a brilliant stylist but a master of characterization, with a keen eye for incongruities of urban life.
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-- the New York Times Book Review
"[McInerney's] talent for capturing the nuances and idiosyncrasies of our culture[ in Bright Lights, Big City] is even more powerful evident in Story of My Life... Underneath Alison's hip, party-girl exterior and flippant vernacular is McInerney's disturbing depiction or a young woman caught in the traumatic reality of her times." -- San Francisco Chronicle
McInerney's Story of My Life is quite as brilliant as Bright Lights, Big City and a lot funnier."
-- the Sunday Times (london)
In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. Alison Poole, twenty going on 40,000, 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 hilarious yet oddly touching portrait of a postmodern Holly Golightly coming to terms with a world in which everything is permitted and nothing really matters.
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- PublisherTrafalgar Square
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0747517657
- ISBN 13 9780747517658
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages272
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New and unread first printing of the first edition UK hardback. As John Sutherland wrote, 'Line for line, one of the funniest novels I have ever read.' This is a new copy, carefully stored in a low light book room. It is the perfect collectable copy. The jacket is also new. Binding tight and the book has no owner marks. Seller Inventory # ABE-1549095947105
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