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Tama Janowitz

    April 12, 1957

    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.

    Tama Janowitz
    A Cannibal in Manhattan
    New York
    Slaves of New York
    American Dad
    Area Code 212
    The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group
    • 2005

      New York

      • 976 pages
      • 35 hours of reading

      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.

      New York
    • 2005

      Peyton Amber versucht ihrer langweiligen Ehe zu entgehen und stürzt sich in gefährliche Liebschaften. Ihr erotisches Treiben ist eine Selbstbefriedigung, aber die Affären machen sie noch unglücklicher. Dieser Roman ist ein bissiger Abgesang auf die Prüderie der amerikanischen Gesellschaft.

      Keine Zeit für schlechten Sex
    • 2003

      Peyton Amberg

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      '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?

      Peyton Amberg
    • 2002

      Area Code 212

      New York Days, New York Nights

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.5(84)Add rating

      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.

      Area Code 212
    • 2000

      Certain Age

      • 335 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      When Florence Collins sets out for a weekend in the Hamptons, her life spirals into a disastrous series of mishaps that include an unwanted night-time visit from her friend's husband, the near drowning of their daughter, and her expulsion from the premises. Thus begins this tragi-comic novel about the sad plight of a woman on the make in Manhattan.

      Certain Age
    • 1999
    • 1998

      By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      On a diet of one Reader's Digest article a day, the Slivenowicz clan abandon their mosquito-infested pastoral idyll for Los Angeles, seducing a series of dentists and English lords along the way. This is a story of the sex lives of people and invertebrates at the end of America's 20th century.

      By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee
    • 1995