Word: mcinerney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AUTHOR: JAY McINERNEY...
...BOTTOM LINE: McInerney fulfills his early promise with a funny, grownup portrait of a Lost Generation...
Even many of the fiction writers who emerged in the late 1980s -- Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz, Jay McInerney, to name the usual suspects -- seemed to be in it for the money and fame. That makes today's young adults pessimistic that originals like Tom Robbins or Timothy Leary or the Rolling Stones will come along in their time. But then even the Stones are not really the Stones these days. "Kids aren't stupid," says Mike O'Connell, 23, of Chicago, lead singer of his own band, Rights of the Accused. "The Stones aren't playing rock 'n' roll...
...terms with herself, escaping her addictions to drugs, alcohol, sex and food, and learning that self-love is enough. But it is really a disturbing tale of leather and peignoirs, money, motorcycles and Georgia O'Keefe-like paintings, Alchoholics Anonymous and New York nightlife--material more befitting Jay McInerney than Jong...