Story of My Life (Signed First Edition)

McInery, Jay

ISBN 10: 0871132389 / ISBN 13: 9780871132383

Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, New York., 1988

About this Item

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Quarter black cloth over cream paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($16.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Cream endpapers. Octavo, 189 pages. McInerney's third novel follows Alison Poole, a fast-living Columbia dropout in 1980s Manhattan, a character who later reappeared in his novel "Brightness Falls" (1992) and in Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho" (1991) and "Glamorama" (1998). McInery based Poole on Lisa Druck, a New York socialite and competitive equestrian who later became known as Rielle Hunter. McInerney has publicly acknowledged in interviews, including with New York Magazine, that Poole was modeled on Druck during their 1980s relationship. McInerney dated Druck in the 1980s. She later became known as Rielle Hunter, the woman involved in the scandal with U.S. Senator John Edwards. Following widespread media coverage during the John Edwards scandal, the connection between Druck and Alison Poole was reported by major outlets including The New York Times, Slate, and Vanity Fair. THE STORY OF MY LIFE followed his breakout debut "Bright Lights, Big City" and the novel "Ransom". SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page--the author's name only, with no other marks or writing.

Seller Inventory # 3424

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Story of My Life (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York.
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871132389
• ISBN 13: 9780871132383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Alison Poole, an aspiring actress whose numerous fixations include drugs, parasitic familiarity with fame, and lust, careens through life in monied Manhattan, a society consuming itself in reckless affluence

From the Back Cover

"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

"[McInerney's] talent for capturing the nuances and idiosyncrasies of our culture[ in Bright Lights, Big City] is even more powerful evident in Story of My Life... Underneath Alison's hip, party-girl exterior and flippant vernacular is McInerney's disturbing depiction or a young woman caught in the traumatic reality of her times." -- San Francisco Chronicle

McInerney's Story of My Life is quite as brilliant as Bright Lights, Big City and a lot funnier."

-- the Sunday Times (london)