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Original Essays | May 1, 2013

Josh Hanagarne: IMG Seven Books That Actually Changed My Life



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Story of My Life (Vintage Contemporaries)

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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.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780679722571
Editor:
McInerney, Jay
Publisher:
Vintage
Author:
McInerney, Jay
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Drug abuse
Subject:
Young women
Subject:
Generation X
Subject:
Drug abuse -- Fiction.
Subject:
Young women -- Sexual activity -- Fiction.
Subject:
Bildungsromane.
Subject:
Sex customs
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Subject:
General Fiction
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)
Series Volume:
no. 57
Publication Date:
19890828
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
8.01x5.18x.61 in. .54 lbs.

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