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Book World; Life in the Lust Lane
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880907
Author:Jonathan Yardley
STORY OF MY LIFE
By Jay McInerney
Atlantic Monthly Press
188 pp. $16.95
Jay McInerney's publisher would have us believe that Alison Poole, the narrator of "Story of My Life," is "a Holly Golightly for the '80s," but her antecedents go back further than that. She brings to mind not Truman Capote's charmingly worldly sprite but the self-infatuated airhead of Ring Lardner's "I Can't Breathe," the nameless young woman who falls in love with every young man who crosses her path and punctuates her diary with melodramatic exclamations: "I can't breathe. I can't live. I can't wait. I can't stand ...
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