The Story of My Life by Jay McInerney
Twenty-years ago, Jay McInerney wrote an intriguing novel about the life of Allison Poole, a free-spirited character with a questionable moral code and a penchant for sex, drugs and many, many men. Jay McInerney has said in interviews that the inspiration for the character of Allison Poole was Lisa Druck. Today Lisa Druck goes by Rielle Hunter, the woman who John Edwards has admitted to having an affair with while his wife was in remission from cancer. Who knew that the scandalous worlds that Jay McInerney creates can seep into our real life political world? Read more about this scandal in the New York Times book BLOG.
