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Jay McInerney's third novel, published four years after his wildly successful BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY, covers some of the same ground and takes place in the same milieu, but is told entirely from a woman's point of view. Alison Poole is 21, an aimless young woman from a wealthy family who spends her evil father's money on a serious cocaine habit, lives from one meaningless sexual encounter to another, and heads for a nervous breakdown--though McInerney allows her, in the end, a little bit of hope. THE STORY OF MY LIFE is, in many ways, as quintessenial a portrait of a certain slice of 1980s New York City as his first novel.
Industry Reviews
"J. D. Salinger was the presiding spirit over Mr. McInerney's STORY OF MY LIFE, a novella-length monologue by a spoiled brat that sounded like garbled passages from THE CATCHER IN THE RYE recited by a caffeinated parrot."
Wall Street Journal - James Wolcott (05/09/1996)
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