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The Good Life
Jay McInerney
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Description for The Good Life
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 254.
Ten years on from Brightness Falls, Russell Calloway is still a literary editor; his wife Corrine has sacrificed her career to watch anxiously over their children. Across town Luke McGavock, a wealthy ex-investment banker, is taking a sabbatical from moneymaking, struggling to reconnect with his socially resplendent wife Sasha and their angst-ridden teenage daughter, Ashley. These two Manhattan families are teetering on the brink of change when 9/11 happens. Through the lens of catastrophe, The Good Life explores that territory between hope and despair, love and loss, regret and fulfilment. This is Jay McInerney doing what he does best, presenting ... Read more
Ten years on from Brightness Falls, Russell Calloway is still a literary editor; his wife Corrine has sacrificed her career to watch anxiously over their children. Across town Luke McGavock, a wealthy ex-investment banker, is taking a sabbatical from moneymaking, struggling to reconnect with his socially resplendent wife Sasha and their angst-ridden teenage daughter, Ashley. These two Manhattan families are teetering on the brink of change when 9/11 happens. Through the lens of catastrophe, The Good Life explores that territory between hope and despair, love and loss, regret and fulfilment. This is Jay McInerney doing what he does best, presenting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408876961
SKU
9781408876961
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
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 two non-fiction books on wine, one of which was the acclaimed A Hedonist in ... Read more
Reviews for The Good Life
`This story is a simple one, but McInerney delivers it with grace and wit. He does what a good novelist should: he takes an abstract idea and gives it life'
Alain de Botton
A shrewd, acidic portrait of literary life in Manhattan at the turn of this already frightful century
Guardian
Engrossing from start to finish, ... Read more
Alain de Botton
A shrewd, acidic portrait of literary life in Manhattan at the turn of this already frightful century
Guardian
Engrossing from start to finish, ... Read more