Tama Janowitz Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

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.

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.

Na twee jaar huwelijk slaat bij een jonge vrouw de verveling toe, die ze bestrijdt door op zoek te gaan naar andere mannen.

'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?

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.

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.

A bitter social comedy unfolds as Florence, a 32-year-old beauty who knows her worth, strives for happiness. Despite her numerous sexual encounters, she finds little joy in them. Her dream is to marry a wealthy man to gain social status and a comfortable life. So far, her suitors have not met her expectations, but she remains hopeful. On a hot summer day, she heads to Long Island to spend the weekend with her friend Natalie, where things seem to take a turn for the better. A millionaire, Charlie, shows interest, an arrogant Italian playboy pursues her, and her ex-lover Darryl, a brilliant lawyer, rekindles his interest. However, chaos ensues: the hostess treats her like a servant, the host harasses her, she becomes embroiled in a risky business deal, and a mishap with the toilet leads to further disorder. Ultimately, a scandal erupts, landing in the newspapers, as a young woman becomes a victim of her own cynicism amidst a ruthless portrayal of the beautiful and wealthy in New York.

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.

Sonnenstich - Erzählungen - bk2130; Goldmann Verlag; Tama Janowitz; pocket_book; 1989

Is life better if you masquerade as a man? That question, along with the male-female relationship wars and other 1990s obsessions, is the subject of this wildy funny new novel by the author of Slaves of New York.

Satirische schetsen van het artistieke wereldje in New York in de jaren tachtig.

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...

"Großstadtsklaven" ist eine wirkliche Entdeckung. Selten hat ein Buch so genau den Nerv der Zeit und des Ortes getroffen wie diese Sammlung von Stories über die Künstler- und Lebenskünstlerszene in New York in den 80ern. In jeder Geschichte wird eine spezielle Form moderner Sklaverei ins Visier die Wohnungs-Sklaverei, die Sex-Sklaverei, die Geld-Sklaverei, die Gefühlssklaverei – und doch sind die Geschichten auf eigenartige Weise einverstanden mit dem Leben, so wie es ist. Also eine Popschriftstellerin? Vielleicht.

Mgungu Yabba Mgungu is living happily on the South Sea island of New Burnt Norton with his three wives, one hundred pigs and assorted children, the last remaining members of the tribe of the Lesser Pimbas. Into this uncivilised land comes Maria Fishburn, strange and beautiful heiress, who decides to marry Mgungu and drag him back to New York City. From his first encounter with airline food and with rock star Kent Gable, who declares he was recently abducted by aliens, Mgungu is plunged into a world much more predatory than anything in the South Seas. Soon Mgungu is the toast of all Manhattan, meeting Parker Junius, unctuous curator of the Museum of Primitive Arts, talking philosophy with Sophie Tuckerman, deli owner, and meeting the illustrious Joey, of pizza parlour fame. It is swathed in a huge fur coat and with his new gold pen through his nose that Mgungu finally marries Maria. But then he falls in with a motley crew who come to threaten them both.

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.