The Good Life
Author(s): Jay McInerney
In the shadow of 9/11, a story of love, family and conflicting desires. 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, two children who help bind them together, even if the promise of their early years together has thinned and faded. Russell is still in publishing, though in a diminished role, while Corrine casts about for a role she might play other than mother. These are only some of the lives transformed by 9/11, in which both McGavock and the Calloways lose a friend, and Luke and Corrine soon find themselves side by side, providing food and drink to workers at the devastated site, while feeling lost anywhere else. This novel is the story of the love that develops between them, people battered by loss and betrayal, by memory and regret, by fresh disappointment and shocks, people determined to discover, before it's too late, what the good life truly is.
Product Information
Here Jay McInerney does what he does best: the life of the city in all its personal, professional, social and moral complexity The sequel to Brightness Falls, one of Jay McInerney's most successful novels To be published alongside Bright Lights, Big City, rejacketed and released for the first time by Bloomsbury Pbks
'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 '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
Jay McInerney is the author of the 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.
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury
- : bloomsbury
- : 05 February 2007
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jay McInerney
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 813.54
- : 368