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Story of My Life (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Jay Mcinerney

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ISBN13: 9780679722571
ISBN10: 0679722572
Condition: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

Supported by her father's money, Alison Poole lives on New York's Upper East Side, spending her days visiting the tanning salon, inhaling cocaine and searching for true love--until life in the fast lane spins out of control! The long-awaited new novel from the author of Bright Lights, Big City.#Vintage.

Review:

"Jay McInerney has proven himself not only a brilliant stylist but a master of characterization, with a keen eye for incongruities of urban life.

-- 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)

Product Details

ISBN:
9780679722571
Editor:
McInerney, Jay
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
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
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)
Series Volume:
no. 57
Publication Date:
August 1989
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
8.01x5.18x.61 in. .54 lbs.

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