Tama Janowitz, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-31844-4
Peyton Amberg is a travel agent who really gets around—in more ways than one. In her latest no-holds-barred take on urban malaise, Janowitz (Slaves of New York, etc.) chronicles the international romps of a modern-day Madame Bovary. With her...
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Tama Janowitz, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (349p) ISBN 978-0-312-32062-1
While Janowitz is famous for her 1986 bestseller Slaves of New York
, she's published widely since then—in everything from Vogue
to Modern Ferret
—and has revised many pieces for this anthology. Apart from the first selection, a...
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Tama Janowitz, Author . HarperCollins UK/The Friday Project $13.95 (282p) ISBN 978-1-906321-30-7
In her first novel since 2003's Peyton Amberg
, Janowitz imagines a surreal and dysfunctional world where toxic waste is everywhere, the rich are very rich and everyone else is very poor, drugs are prevalent and jobs are scarce, cockroaches...
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Tama Janowitz, Author Washington Square Press $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-63678-4
These seven stories feature Eleanor, a diffident young woman who gains entree to the arty milieu of lower Manhattan, which seems to combine elements of Oz and Never-Never-Land with Dante's Inferno. PW noted that the author's prose infuses the...
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Tama Janowitz, Author Washington Square Press $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66598-2
A South Seas purple-skinned cannibal wanders the streets of New York and satirizes the natives in this ``tiresome and self-conscious'' novel. The author of Slaves of New York offers here ``a less successful effort but an equally sardonic view of the
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Tama Janowitz, Author Washington Square Press $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-87150-5
Janowitz's witty and hyberbolic tale about seamy, disaffected New Yorkers poses serio-comic questions about gender and identity but is flawed by a misdirected plot. (Feb.)
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Tama Janowitz, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-49610-0
A sordid, contemporary rendition of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, this unflaggingly downbeat comedy of manners charts the cruelties visited upon fashionable Manhattan women seeking husbands and social status before the clock runs out. Like...
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Tama Janowitz, Author Random House Value Publishing $17.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-517-56624-4
The author of the bestselling Slaves of New York offers here a less successful effort but an equally sardonic view of the wormy Big Apple, narrated in the stilted voice of Mgungu Yabba Mgungu, self-described as a ""brutal and violently ignorant...
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Tama Janowitz, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $20 (314p) ISBN 978-0-517-58698-3
Janowitz ( A Cannibal in Manhattan ) has the New York scene down pat, but her inventiveness, on-target wit and frenzied characters only partially salvage this misdirected tale. The opening chapters, set in Manhattan, are truly propitious, as they...
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Tama Janowitz, Author Crown Publishers $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-70298-7
Maud Slivenowicz, the smartass 19-year-old narrator of this painfully precious novel, can flirt only by expounding on the sex lives of invertebrates. She lives in Upstate New York, in a trailer home near the banks of Lake Gitchee Gumee, with her ...
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Tama Janowitz. Dey Street, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-239132-2
Recounting her glory days as one of New York's bright young writers in the 1980s and her more recent struggles caring for her ailing mother, novelist and short story writer Janowitz slides too often into melodrama and griping in this tiresome memoir.
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This rather bland dialogue between a mother and son begins in a dim living room, where a TV illuminates the remains of dinner. In the doorway to an untidy hall, the ominous words "buzz, buzz, buzz" appear. " 'Ssshhh,' I said. &#
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