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Bright, Precious Days
Jay McInerney
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Description for Bright, Precious Days
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
'Stylish observation ... Suspenseful and well told' Lionel Shriver, Financial Times It is 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is running his own publishing company, and clinging to their downtown loft; Corrine manages a charity, and is desperate to move somewhere with more space for their twins. Although they try to forget each other's past indiscretions, when Jeff Pierce's posthumous novel gathers a new cult following, the memory of their friend begins to haunt the couple. Then, with devastating timing, Corrine's former lover makes an unexpected reappearance...
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408876558
SKU
V9781408876558
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-50
About Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney came to prominence in 1984 with his first novel Bright Lights, Big City. He is the author of six further novels: Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages, Model Behaviour and The Good Life, two short story collections, and three non-fiction books on wine, one of which was the acclaimed A Hedonist in the Cellar. He writes a wine column for Town and Country and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times Book Review and Corriere della Sera. He lives in Manhattan and Bridgehampton, New York. jaymcinerney.com / @JayMcInerney
Reviews for Bright, Precious Days
One of the most gifted writers of his generation ... Whatever he does makes fascinating reading
Observer
No contemporary author quite matches Jay McInerney
Mail on Sunday
Not only a brilliant stylist but a master of characterization, with a keen eye for the incongruities of urban life
New York Times
McInerney joins a small number of dissident novelists, headed by Norman Mailer, who change the way we look at American history
Sunday Telegraph
A scabrously scintillating stylist
Guardian
McInerney has a gift for the simultaneous perception of the glamour and tawdriness of city life
Evening Standard
Our modern-day Fitzgerald evokes New York's fading glamour in Bright, Precious Days
Vanity Fair
The characters in Bright, Precious Days are so well-drawn they leap off the page like great old friends ... McInerney['s] legendary lyrical prose and fierce intelligence are on full display in Bright, Precious Days ... So, too, is his deep humour ... Jay is a very, very funny writer, with passages that are reminiscent of P.G.Wodehouse in their deliciously outlandish humour ... 'a masterpiece'
Candace Bushnell
Porter
Mr McInerney's multivolume, not-so-distant historical fiction can't help recalling John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom books or Phillip Roth's second Zuckerman trilogy ... compassion and empathy don't dull a wicked sense of humour ... Mr McInerney has long been celebrated as a social satirist ... a portrait of a marriage in full, its strengths and weaknesses, its betrayals and compromises as vivid as you'll find in any medium
New York Times
Affecting ... mellow, earnest, almost elegiac. It is intelligent, and knowing in its depiction of certain segments of New York ... McInerney's real subject is happiness, and whether it can survive the batterings of our restlessness and ambition. On this subject, he is mature and humane, offering considered and convincing analysis instead of familiar novelistic tropes ... Refreshingly clear-eyed
New Yorker
Vivid ... McInerney builds up a multilayered survey of Manhattan shortly before the 2008 crash, and this brings out the best in him ... McInerney's playful set-piece scenes of social observation are memorable ... Polished and diverting
Literary Review
McInerney's fiction can't help recalling John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom books or Philip Roth's second Zuckerman trilogy ... The Calloway books share strengths with all those works, as well as an underlying spirit that is McInerney's own
Scotsman
McInerney's skill is in his unobtrusive deployment of the free, indirect style, inhabiting his characters' sensibilities ... The seismic rumble of oncoming financial disaster is augured in deft touches ... McInerney is good on the fine gradations that lie in the upper reaches of the US class system ... He has a sensitive ear ... The novel is well stocked with expertly handled set pieces
Times Literary Supplement
Stylish observation ... Suspenseful and well told
Lionel Shriver
Financial Times
Vivid ... McInerney builds up a multilayered survey of Manhattan shortly before the 2008 crash, and this brings out the best in him. Everything is seamlessly woven into Russell's or Corrine's experiences ... McInerney's playful set-piece scenes of social observation ... are invariably ... memorable
Literary Review
I sped through it with relish ... an eye for the ridiculousness and an infectious sense of fun
New Statesman
Those of us who enjoyed the first two books will find pleasure in receiving news of old friends, especially of their failures and misdeeds.Bright, Precious Days provides plenty of both ... McInerney is generous with satirical vignettes of New York excess
Irish Times
Observer
No contemporary author quite matches Jay McInerney
Mail on Sunday
Not only a brilliant stylist but a master of characterization, with a keen eye for the incongruities of urban life
New York Times
McInerney joins a small number of dissident novelists, headed by Norman Mailer, who change the way we look at American history
Sunday Telegraph
A scabrously scintillating stylist
Guardian
McInerney has a gift for the simultaneous perception of the glamour and tawdriness of city life
Evening Standard
Our modern-day Fitzgerald evokes New York's fading glamour in Bright, Precious Days
Vanity Fair
The characters in Bright, Precious Days are so well-drawn they leap off the page like great old friends ... McInerney['s] legendary lyrical prose and fierce intelligence are on full display in Bright, Precious Days ... So, too, is his deep humour ... Jay is a very, very funny writer, with passages that are reminiscent of P.G.Wodehouse in their deliciously outlandish humour ... 'a masterpiece'
Candace Bushnell
Porter
Mr McInerney's multivolume, not-so-distant historical fiction can't help recalling John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom books or Phillip Roth's second Zuckerman trilogy ... compassion and empathy don't dull a wicked sense of humour ... Mr McInerney has long been celebrated as a social satirist ... a portrait of a marriage in full, its strengths and weaknesses, its betrayals and compromises as vivid as you'll find in any medium
New York Times
Affecting ... mellow, earnest, almost elegiac. It is intelligent, and knowing in its depiction of certain segments of New York ... McInerney's real subject is happiness, and whether it can survive the batterings of our restlessness and ambition. On this subject, he is mature and humane, offering considered and convincing analysis instead of familiar novelistic tropes ... Refreshingly clear-eyed
New Yorker
Vivid ... McInerney builds up a multilayered survey of Manhattan shortly before the 2008 crash, and this brings out the best in him ... McInerney's playful set-piece scenes of social observation are memorable ... Polished and diverting
Literary Review
McInerney's fiction can't help recalling John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom books or Philip Roth's second Zuckerman trilogy ... The Calloway books share strengths with all those works, as well as an underlying spirit that is McInerney's own
Scotsman
McInerney's skill is in his unobtrusive deployment of the free, indirect style, inhabiting his characters' sensibilities ... The seismic rumble of oncoming financial disaster is augured in deft touches ... McInerney is good on the fine gradations that lie in the upper reaches of the US class system ... He has a sensitive ear ... The novel is well stocked with expertly handled set pieces
Times Literary Supplement
Stylish observation ... Suspenseful and well told
Lionel Shriver
Financial Times
Vivid ... McInerney builds up a multilayered survey of Manhattan shortly before the 2008 crash, and this brings out the best in him. Everything is seamlessly woven into Russell's or Corrine's experiences ... McInerney's playful set-piece scenes of social observation ... are invariably ... memorable
Literary Review
I sped through it with relish ... an eye for the ridiculousness and an infectious sense of fun
New Statesman
Those of us who enjoyed the first two books will find pleasure in receiving news of old friends, especially of their failures and misdeeds.Bright, Precious Days provides plenty of both ... McInerney is generous with satirical vignettes of New York excess
Irish Times