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Story of My Life
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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
'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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Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney is an American novelist, screenwriter and wine critic. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls and The Last of the Savages.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A girl narrator, and a better story. But it is still just a bunch of drugs and pointless sex.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hot on the heels of my Holden Caulfield fixation came Alison Poole - the sarcastic and damaged protagonist of this bilungsroman. Alison is a hillarious and acute observer of 1980s New York - although her perception of her own frailty and addiction is blunted by cocaine and sex.Alison also makes a cameo in 'American Psycho' by Brett Easton Ellis - as the one that (quite literally) got away.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Alison Poole is a party girl come wannabe actress in New York. She's a cynic who's in touch with her inner child. She's got crazy friends and a dysfunctional family. This is her story.
McInerney achieves a power and a true voice and sustains it. Cutting insights and a deliriously good read. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wanna know the three biggest lies in the world?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My English professor once offered this as an example of a guy trying and not really succeeding at a woman's voice, but I begged to differ. This is a hilarious yet tragic book and I loved the voice.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I think many readers might begin reading Story of my Life by Jay McInerney and start discounting it as just a rich people sex and drugs novel. I almost did at first. But, as I continued reading Alison Poole's story about her escapades and friends who betray her, along with her mentions of her messed-up parents, I found her more of a sympathetic character. Set and written in the 1980s, a time I am all too familiar with -- was the about same age as Alison Poole during that time era.