Bright Lights, Big City
By: Jay McInerney
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation,…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
"Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
"It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
"It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
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1. Fat City
By: Leonard Gardner
4.02
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Fat City is a novel about the indestructibility of of hope, the anguish and comedy of the human con… read more
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"Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event."-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not des…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
"Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He…"-Leonard Gardner, Fat City
2. From Rockaway
By: Jill Eisenstadt
3.09
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Timmy and Chowderhead and Peg are lifeguards. They spend summers sitting in those tall chairs, smok… read more
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- new york
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"Her legs swing complete afternoons away."-Jill Eisenstadt, From Rockaway
3. Imperial Bedrooms
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.19
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years on from "Less Than Zero", we pick up again with "Clay". In 1985, Bret Easton … read more
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"Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
"The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
"The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
"Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before."-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms
4. Lunar Park
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zerocatapulted him … read more
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5. American Psycho
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.16
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming … read more
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6. Jesus' Son
By: Denis Johnson
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more
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7. Slaves of New York
By: Tama Janowitz
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A coterie of artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers are all aspiring towards fame and hoping for l… read more
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8. Microserfs
By: Douglas Coupland
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Narrated in the form of a Powerbook entry by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer for Microsoft, th… read more
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- literature
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9. Angels
By: Denis Johnson
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Adazzling and savage first novel' New York Times Angelstells the story of two born losers. Jamie h… read more
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10. Last Exit to Brooklyn
By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more
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11. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
By: Douglas Coupland
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brough… read more
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12. Bright Lights, Big City
By: Jay McInerney
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation,… read more
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"Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
"It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
"The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
"You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters."-Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
13. Glamorama
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.54
Format: 546 pages, Paperback
“Impeccable . . . cold and pitiless and modern.” —The Village Voice “Compelling and scary. A pol… read more
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"How is your father?"-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama
"The better you look, the more you see"-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama
"The better you look, the more you see."-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama
"The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash into Me"-Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama
14. The Rules of Attraction
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set at a small affluent liberal-arts college in New England eighties, The Rules of Attractionis a s… read more
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15. Less Than Zero
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more
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16. The Informers
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.27
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
Set in Los Angeles, in the recent past. The birthplace and graveyard of American myths and dreams, … read more
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17. The Bonfire of the Vanities
By: Tom Wolfe
3.90
Format: 690 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780553381344.The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel… read more
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"Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"He had the gaunt and haunted athletic look of those who stare daily down the bony gullet of the great god Aerobics."-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
"The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman's mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul's, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to…"-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
18. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more
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19. The Shards
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.00
Format: 595 pages, Hardcover
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more
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"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
20. White
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.49
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Ellis offers a first work of nonfiction meditating on the social-media age. The result is both a de… read more
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- the united states of america
"[I]t seems that everyone has fallen under the thrall of this idea that we’re all writers and dramatists now, that each of us has a special voice and something very important to say, usually about a f…"-Bret Easton Ellis, White
21. Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
By: Tom McGrath
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In Triumph of the Yuppies, Tom McGrath presents the first-ever book-length history of the Yuppie ph… read more
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