"Janowitz is a fearless writer. Her details are quirky, her language is lean and her sentences sprint along with deceptive ease. The protagonists in her stories share with her a shyness and a sense of always being out of place. Although they try in earnest to fit in, they put on the wrong clothes or say the wrong thing or fail to grasp the subtle messages other people send their way" - "New York Times". "The shrewd observation, the skewed invention are the gifts of a singular talent" - Jay McInerney.
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Brilliantly funny. -- Independent
Extremely funny. -- Marie Claire
Janowitz is a fearless writer. Her details are quirky, her language is lean and her sentences sprint along with deceptive ease. -- New York Times
Laugh-out loud funny... wonderful. -- Washington Post
So savagely witty, so acerbic, so piercingly accurate. -- Los Angeles Examiner
Extremely funny. -- Marie Claire
Janowitz is a fearless writer. Her details are quirky, her language is lean and her sentences sprint along with deceptive ease. -- New York Times
Laugh-out loud funny... wonderful. -- Washington Post
So savagely witty, so acerbic, so piercingly accurate. -- Los Angeles Examiner
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Tama Janowitz is the author of the novels A CERTAIN AGE, published by Bloomsbury, and AMERICAN DAD, A CANNIBAL IN MANHATTAN, BY THE SHORES OF GITCHEE GUMEE and THE MALE CROSS-DRESSER SUPPORT GROUP, all to follow from Bloomsbury. She writes for numerous periodicals including the NEW YORKER and ELLE. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her brutish, handsome husband, malevolent, adorable child, and two six-pound, partially hairless dogs, one of whom is crazy.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By andy r
Format:Paperback
this is a book that has the time it was written in stamped over all it. Tama Janowitz is a contemporary of Brett Easton Ellis,and was also part of Andy Warhol's inner circle . She writes stories that covered similar misadventures to Easton Ellis. This book is more like a set of short stories that cover a interesting variety of women trying to make an honest dollar and get on with there ambitions lives in New York as is often in big cities some of the women end up in less glamorous surroundings than they had hoped for. They are stories in which the protagonists hit hard reality regardless of there dreams. It is funny and sympathetic.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
This was the first book I read by Ms. Janowitz and the story, for the most part, moves along at a nice pace. There are the various assortment of characters...some making numerous appearances, some only a solo appearance. I did appreciate her witty sense of humour.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
I must be missing something
15 Aug 2006
By Z. Freeman
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Format:Paperback
Maybe it's because I was born in the 80's and not partying then, or maybe I'm just too middle-class, but I thought this entire book was pretty mediocre. The characters were interesting, but usually I felt like the author was trying too hard to make them interesting. Janowitz fits in with the Bret Easton Ellis/Jay McInerney style of writing about what it's like to be incredibly spoiled and have no soul. The two aforementioned authors pull that off with a lot more style and ability than she does.
I only read this book because I heard that the character of Stash is in Ellis' book American Psycho. Overall, I found myself interested in the stories and the characters, but most of the stories lacked a certain human aspect that the other two authors know how to provide. This is a good read if you're stuck in an airport all day with nothing else, otherwise I'd recommend getting something with more substance.
I only read this book because I heard that the character of Stash is in Ellis' book American Psycho. Overall, I found myself interested in the stories and the characters, but most of the stories lacked a certain human aspect that the other two authors know how to provide. This is a good read if you're stuck in an airport all day with nothing else, otherwise I'd recommend getting something with more substance.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Deeply Modern and 80s
4 May 2000
By A Customer
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Format:Paperback
This book has had some trenmendous impacts on me that I never realized until one day when I thought of leg-waxing, I thought of "a tiny women yelling at me in Spanish and pouring hot wax on my legs..." Spend a day in uptown Manhattan with idiosyncratic artists in their most primitive desires and philosophies. This book is unbelievably true and sensitive.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
I read it over and over again
29 Nov 2001
By "meltingyellow"
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Format:Paperback
I've read this book so many times over that I've actually become sentimentally attached to it. Most of the enjoyment from it is reliving the time in which it's set, the 1980s, an interesting time in the way that the clothing was: at times conservative, other times colorful, overall intriguing, but there's still no way in hell you'd want to BE in it again.
This book captures the lives of the wacky, egocentric NY artists who reflect their hated yuppie counterparts in that they're upwardly mobile, albeit nonconformistly, greedy and self-centered. But unlike yuppies, the artists of the Lower East Side present far more colorful stories and egos to capitalize on.
Fortunately the book has Eleanor, the self-deprecating protagonist to whom we all endear. She keeps the book light-hearted and comical, as she is the offbeat among the offbeat, the miscast in the world of misfits. She is the self-conscious woman who clashes with, and makes uncomfortable, her fellow carefree artists. But she eventually finds her ground in the big city. We root for because she conquers the city the way we wish we could: by keeping intact our integrity, humility, and naivete, and not succumbing to the cynicism and selfishness of the "Me" generation.
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