Jay Mcinerney

Story of My Life (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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'Line for line, it's one of the funniest novels I have ever read' - John Sutherland, London Review of Books

'Story of My Life is quite as brilliant as Bright Lights, Big City' - Sunday Times

'McInerney has proven himself not only a brilliant stylist but a master of characterisation, with a keen eye for the incongruities of urban life' - New York Times Book Review
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It is party time in eighties Manhattan. Smart, sassy and cynical, Alison lives for the moment. Her life is a carnival of gossip and midnight sessions of Truth or Dare, and her cocaine-bashing friends and flirting flatmates all crave satiation.

Young and beautiful, hip and indulgent, sex-crazed and alcohol-fuelled, Alison can neither pay her fees for drama school nor track down her indifferent father. She juggles rent money with abortion fees, lingering lovers with current conquests and is the despair of her gynaecologist. She's fallen deeply in lust with Dean, although that nasty present Skip Pendleton left her with hasn't yet cleared up.

Story of her life, right? But in a world of no consequences, Alison is heading for a meltdown.
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'McInerney's novels, filled with the depiction of glamorous imbecilities and hilarious excesses, are acute about a certain kind of Manhattan amorality. They offer a swift, intelligent guide to the latest racket' - Observer

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408854501
• Artikelnr.: 40344293

Autorenporträt

Jay McInerney came to prominence in 1984 with his first novel Bright Lights, Big City. He is the author of seven further novels: Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages, Model Behaviour, The Good Life and Bright, Precious Days, two short story collections, and three non-fiction books on wine, one of which was the acclaimed A Hedonist in the Cellar. He writes a wine column for Town and Country and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times Book Review and Corriere della Sera. He lives in Manhattan and Bridgehampton, New York.

jaymcinerney.com / @JayMcInerney

Rezensionen

'Line for line, it's one of the funniest novels I have ever read' John Sutherland, London Review of Books