Better Than Sane

By Alison Rose,

Book cover of Better Than Sane: Tales from a Dangling Girl

Book description

Dorothy Parker meets Holly Golightly in this sharp, delicious, bright-girl-comes-to-New-York memoir. Alison Rose, former actress and former model (sort of), takes us from her childhood to her years at The New Yorker, revealing how, often, she “didn’t care enough about existence to keep it going herself” and preferred to stay…

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1 author picked Better Than Sane as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A detailed portrait of a tragic American artist, with the detailed context of the musical world from which he emerged.

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