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Description for The Good Life
Hardback. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper. First edition signed by the author
Jay McInerney revisits ten years on some of the characters that populated Brightness Falls. Luke McGavock, in the enviable position of having made more money than he can spend, has chosen to take a sabbatical in which he might recover the sense of purpose suddenly lacking in his life. But his wife is more than up to the task of spending and very much a part of Upper East Side society, which affects their daughter in ways that he shudders to think about. Meanwhile, Russell and Corrine Galloway have survived a separation and managed to produce, by extraordinary medical means, ... Read more
Jay McInerney revisits ten years on some of the characters that populated Brightness Falls. Luke McGavock, in the enviable position of having made more money than he can spend, has chosen to take a sabbatical in which he might recover the sense of purpose suddenly lacking in his life. But his wife is more than up to the task of spending and very much a part of Upper East Side society, which affects their daughter in ways that he shudders to think about. Meanwhile, Russell and Corrine Galloway have survived a separation and managed to produce, by extraordinary medical means, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747580904
SKU
KEX0303513
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney is the author of six previous novels, Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages and Model Behaviour, as well as one story collection How It Ended. He lives in New York and Nashville.
Reviews for The Good Life
'Jay McInerney is the type of American novelist to whom English readers instinctively warm' Sunday Telegraph 'McInerney's writing is ironic, penetrating and at times even lyrical. He has all the true instincts of a major novelist' Joseph Olshan 'McInerney is the finest commentator on contemporary America' Yorkshire Post 'McInerney has proven himself not only a brilliant stylist ... Read more