Tama Janowitz is an American novelist and short story writer celebrated for her depictions of New York City life. Her style, often associated with the "brat pack" literary movement, delves into the essence of urban existence with a sharp perspective. She explores themes of modern living and the search for identity within bustling environments, offering readers a keen insight into societal and personal struggles. Her writing is valued for its candor and its ability to capture the spirit of the age.
Paints a funny picture of today's male-female relationship wars, messy sex roles and romantic expectations. Pamela finds herself unwillingly in the middle of an adventure at home and abroad. The author also wrote "American Dad", "Slaves of New York" and "A Cannibal in Manhattan".
I was walking down the street and a homeless person on the corner yelled to me, 'Hey, honey - you having a bad hair day?' Welcome to the wonderful world of Tama Janowitz, New York's wittiest and deader than deadpan social scene chronicler. Littered with idiosyncratic delights and oddities, here are hilarious stories of her eighties blind date club with Andy Warhol; her brief moment of celebrity as an elderly teenage extra in a ZZ Top video; and testing as mentally retarded on an IQ test. Janowitz gives us her unique low-down on hairless dogs and ferrets, babies and Brooklyn, big hair and bad hair days - and survival tips for real life girls. Self-deprecating, funny and often touching, AREA CODE 212 is a sparkling and deeply amusing collection.
American Dad is Tama Janowitz's hilarious first novel. Through the eyes of the young Earl Przepasniak ("a name unwieldy as a tumour"), it narrates the outrageous and tender story of Mavis, poet and mother, and Robert, the American dad. Earl's life revolves around the deeply wounding split of his parents and his attempts, through a less-than-idyllic childhood and the inexorable onslaught of manhood, to overcome the irresistible force of his father. But it is only when his parents meet their respective fates that Earl can feel not only loyal and guilty, but also free...
A coterie of artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers are all aspiring towards fame and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers. Offbeat, funny and bitingly satirical, "Slaves of New York" sheds an incomparable light on the city's denizens and social mores.
Mgungu, a South Seas islander and former cannibal, is dragged to predatory Manhattan by a young heiress.
'What was the use of living in a porn film now, at her age?' pondered Peyton Amberg, alone in a glamorous Hong Kong hotel room. At twenty, when she could have pulled a film star, she'd had no sex drive at all. Then she - and her mother - had wanted love and commitment so she married the 'nebbishy Jewish dentist' who thought she was a goddess but left her cold. Now she is on a world tour of past loves and lusty last stands which are getting to feel painfully insalubrious. As the young man she pursues in Antwerp says: 'You must be as old as my mother…Lady, you must be fifty.' Tama Janowitz manages to be both intoxicatingly funny and sobering at once in this unforgettable portrait of a woman at a crossroads. From Hong Kong to Rio, via Milan and an English country house, Peyton Amberg has pursued her flings. And now what she wants to know is, when had women taken over the man's role and why was the whole set-up so goddamn humiliating?
Diverse and vivacious, artistic, audacious, and always inspirational, there are many definitions of New York.In a photographic tour that goes beyond the clichés of this spirited city, Assouline presents a unique portrait of New York City with pictures that are at once modern, elegant, and bold. From its intimate details to its iconic architecture, here are over 900 images that illuminate the mantra, Only in New York. There is Central Park and Carnegie Hall, of course, but also Mott Street, Jackson Heights and the Apollo.With an entertaining introduction by Tama Janowitz and an appendix of Assouline s favourite hotels, restaurants, museums, and special services, New York is the quintessential illustrated volume on the world s greatest city.
Was trägt der Kannibale in Manhattan? Unterm Pelzmantel lediglich den Flaschenkürbis, einen Hundezahngürtel und das Halsband aus menschlichen Kieferknochen. Was ißt der Kannibale beim Picknick in Manhattan? Weintrauben, Zuckergußtorte mit Mandarinenscheibchen, tranchierte Brathähnchen und Bounty-Riegel. Der Kannibale in Manhattan ist einfach gut drauf.
Sonnenstich - Erzählungen - bk2130; Goldmann Verlag; Tama Janowitz; pocket_book; 1989
