The Story of My Life (Vintage Contemporaries)

by JayMcInerney (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.49

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.49

  This novel focuses on a section of 1980s Manhattan culture. Beautiful, blunt, world-weary and 20, Alison depicts the group-indulgence and parental indifference that conspire against her, as her plight is drawn with humour and finesse.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $3.49

  The author of Bright Lights, Big City here zeros in on one section of late-1980s Manhattan culture which is burning itself out even as it ignites. Beautiful, blunt, world-weary and 20, Alison is the reader's guide to the group indulgence and parental indifference that conspire against her. The author captures her plight with humour in this moral tale.

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $15.47

  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.