The Last of the Savages
Author: Jay McInerney
From the writer whose earlier novels captured all the hypnotic excess of the 1980s comes a novel of splendid scope that traces the arc of an entire generation. Patrick Keane and Will Savage meet at prep school just as the 1960s are reaching life-off velocity. Patrick is Irish Catholic and already plotting his ascent into the upper class. Will is a renegade from a patrician….Read More
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