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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. Jay McInerney: Story of My Life - A Novel.
Underneath Alison’s hip, party-girl exterior and flippant vernacular is McInerney’s disturbing depiction of a young woman caught in the traumatic reality of her times.” - San Francisco Chronicle In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. major novelist, Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far. “ talent for capturing the nuances and idiosyncrasies of our culture is even more powerfully evident in Story of My Life . . . “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 As she traverses nocturnal New York with her coterie of coke-addicted friends-and races toward emotional breakdown-the author of Brightness Falls and other acclaimed works of fiction gives us a funny, poignant portrait of a postmodern Holly Golightly coming to terms with a world in which everything is permitted and nothing really matters. Twenty-something aspiring actress Alison Poole is well versed in hopping the clubs, shopping Chanel, falling in and out of lust, and abusing other people’s credit cards. Customer Book Reviews Rated 3. Perfect for in-depth school essays and projects on Story. McInerney returns to the setting of his first novel, the phenomenal Bright Lights, Big City, to tell a young girl's story of a society consuming itself in reckless affluence. A “brilliant” novel of a party girl in 1980s Manhattan, by the author of Bright Lights, Big City ( The Sunday Times). In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. Suggested books and resources to further your understanding of Story of My Life by Jay McInerney.