num_pages: 188
description: 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.
language: English
title: Story of My Life
titlecomplete: Story of My Life
characters: Alison Poole
genres: 20th Century, Adult, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age, Fiction, Contemporary, New York, American
ratings_count: 3612
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Penguin