How It Ended
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:5th Feb '07
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Sex, excess and urban paranoia... How It Ended returns to hallmark McInerney territory
--_'Urban tales of sex, sell-outs, divisions and divorces' - Harper's Bazaar‘Jay McInerney is the type of American novelist to whom English readers instinctively warm ... How It Ended is the work of a fine writer on the top of his form' - Sunday Telegraph‘McInerney rarely lets the reader down and the buzz you get from reading How It Ended will last longer than your usual fix' - Tatler‘Sharp, spare, exquisitely observed writing' - Daily Mail--_Sex, excess and urban paranoia... this collection of short stories returns to hallmark McInerney territory Discover a world of sex, excess and urban paranoia where worlds collide, relationships fragment and the dark underbelly of the American dream is exposed. A transgender prostitute accidentally propositions his own father. A senator's serial infidelities leave him in hot water. And two young lovers spend Christmas together high on different drugs. McInerney's characters struggle together in a shifting world where old certainties dissolve and nobody can be sure of where they stand.
‘Sharp, spare, exquisitely observed writing' * Daily Mail *
‘Jay McInerney is the type of American novelist to whom English readers instinctively warm ... How It Ended is the work of a fine writer on the top of his form' * Sunday Telegraph *
‘McInerney rarely lets the reader down and the buzz you get from reading How It Ended will last longer than your usual fix' * Tatler *
‘The best modern stories I have read since James Joyce's Dubliners * Daily Mail *
ISBN: 9780747585206
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 153g
208 pages