The Good Life

ISBN-13: 9780375725456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 384 str.

Jay McInerney

Opis

In this bestselling novel, the author of Bright Lights, Big City unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in a powerfully searing work of fiction.Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing less than miraculous. Several miles uptown and perched near the top of the Upper East Side s social register, Luke McGavock has postponed his accumulation of wealth in an attempt to recover the sense of purpose now lacking in a life that often gives him pause. But on a September morning, brightness falls horribly from the sky, and people worlds apart suddenly find themselves working side by side at the devastated site.Wise, surprising, and, ultimately, heart-stoppingly redemptive, The Good Life captures lives that allow us to see through personal, social, and moral complexity more clearly into the heart of things."

Recenzje

A real love story . . . with a sympathy and depth new to McInerney s fiction. The New York Times

The Good Life is McInerney s most fully imagined novel as it is his most ambitious and elegiac. The New York Review of Books

A triumph. The Village Voice

McInerney at his narrative best. Chicago Sun-Times

O autorze

Jay McInerney is the author of eight novels, a collection of short stories and three collections of essays on wine. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York.