Manhattan

by Neal Travis

They make sweet love on Bill Blass sheets and make big deals at "21." They dance at Regine's drink at Elaine's and score at Studio 54.

They are the Beautiful People behind New York's most glamorous magazine, and this is the inside story of what happens when their glittering world is threatened by an international publishing giant.

Genres: New York, Fiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

Reviews

[Alberto Martínez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Esta novela está super entretenida y entrega todo lo que promete: intriga en las altas esferas de los medios de comunicación de NY, porno ochentero, Studio54, morbo gay en las afueras de la ciudad, madrazos, cogidas, jetset y un final chido que no sé si dio pie a una segunda parte.
EL lenguaje y la estructura es obviamente muy simple y pop para cumplir con los estándares comerciales de una novela como esta (de supermercado): tiene de todo pero nada en el exceso.

[Eveline Chao]

A friend gave this to me as something of a joke and I read it at the beach. Granted my expectations were low but I ended up being surprised at how not-that-bad it was. I mean, I wouldn't call this great literature, but it had a lot more substance than it needed to. The people and their motivations were like cardboard cut-out stereotypes of the late '70s (young blondes are beautiful and ambitious and willing to sleep their way to the top, a gay character is the one to have something horrible and grotesque happen to him, etc.) and there were a fair number of sex scenes just for the sake of having a sex scene, but I actually got absorbed enough by the plot to keep reading to the end. It was funny too that all the impressions that an East Coaster character had visiting California (people seem shallow but eventually he gets won over by everyone's good looks and the relaxed pace of life) seemed exactly the same as the stereotypes about the West Coast that East Coasters have today.