false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167576920m/25075.jpg 25075 13 In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. 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. As Alison races toward emotional breakdown, McInerney gives us a hilarious yet oddly touching portrait of a postmodern Holly Golightly coming to terms with a world in which everything is permitted and nothing really matters. 827024 1988 Story of My Life total:487|5:89|4:186|3:142|2:54|1:16| 487 1739 627 58 3 3 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 13:00:15 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 13:00:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Aug 18 08:04:19 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 05:21:06 -0700 2008
That sounds bad, I know. I'm not implying that Geeta was a self-obsessed blue blood who snorted her way into rehab after spending all of her family's money in the nightclubs of 1980s New York City. Much to the contrary. I guess I imagined her as the absen...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Wed Dec 31 13:51:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 13:57:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Mar 18 22:41:09 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 21:35:30 -0700 2008
McInerney achieves a power and a true voice and sustains it. Cutting insights and a deliriously good re...]]> 5 2 false false Fri May 18 15:06:41 -0700 2007 Fri May 18 15:36:02 -0700 2007 4 2 false false Thu Jun 07 09:07:21 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 07 09:08:39 -0700 2007 5 1 false false Mon Sep 22 11:52:25 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 11:53:58 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 31 11:30:44 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 11:31:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Thu Dec 18 10:21:26 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 10:32:57 -0800 2008
I actually went to a reading when this book first came out and when he signed my book I felt the need to correct him on the Lif...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 17 12:29:15 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 12:40:11 -0700 2009
Supposedly the heroine was inspired by the mothe...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1990 Sat Aug 16 17:01:32 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 08:21:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 21:31:11 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 14:22:42 -0800 2009
"Less Than Zero" meets "Sex and the City." The trials and tribulations of a privileged 1980's New York slut nearing her 21st birthday. Dark humor and cocaine abound. ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 08:00:08 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 08:06:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Tue Aug 12 16:23:16 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 16:33:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Sep 09 07:57:12 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 07:59:17 -0700 2009
McInerney gets a lot of praise for his ability to really accurately portray the culture of 80s-era Manhattan airhead coke fiends. I'm not sure why this is conside...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jun 12 02:54:53 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 02:56:37 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Dec 29 14:30:49 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 14:46:36 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 14:30:49 -0800 2008 The narration was believable, the narrator engaging and likable. The dialogue felt true and was written properly in the post-modern mode, sans those obnoxious "". Who tells a story like that anymore?
Anyways, very good...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 06 11:15:16 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 11:34:00 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jun 08 15:11:35 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 15:12:56 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 20:55:54 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 18:49:32 -0700 2008 2 at 19 or 20 I remember thinking it was brilliant...and in still holds my attention but in the 15 years+ since I first read it, t...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=25075