The Good Life
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:8th Sep '16
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Jay McInerney's classic novel of New York in the shadow of 9/11, a story of love, family and conflicting desires, republished alongside his new hardback, Bright, Precious Days
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'A shrewd, acidic portrait of literary life in Manhattan at the turn of this already frightful century' - Guardian
'A beautiful, affecting novel, one of the best yet inspired by 9/11' - Sunday Telegraph
'Engrossing from start to finish, this compassionate novel depicts a very human response to tragedy' - Mail on Sunday
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Jay McInerney's classic novel of New York in the shadow of 9/11 tells a story of love, family and conflicting desires
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 us with life in New York City, in all its moral complexity.
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‘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, this compassionate novel depicts a very human response to tragedy * Mail on Sunday *
McInerney’s most fully imagined novel as it is his most ambitious and elegiac * New York Review of Books *
‘The subject of The Good Life is the cataclysm of 9/11, and McInerney lays claim to it with the authority and conviction of a native master ... McInerney here joins a small number of dissident novelists, headed by Norman Mailer, who change the way we look at American history' * Sunday Telegraph *
‘While those who read and fell in love with Brightness Falls all those years ago will devour The Good Life with relish, this is something which will appeal to those who have never read him before' * Irish Independent *
‘Moving, thoughtful and altogether surprising in its portrayal of passion thwarted by circumstance, of all the 9/11 books this is possibly the only one that will pass the test of time' * Arena *
A beautiful, affecting novel, one of the best yet inspired by 9/11 * Sunday Telegraph *
ISBN: 9781408876961
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 257g
368 pages