The Good Life
Author: Jay McInerney
Amazon.com Exclusive: James Frey Reviews The Good Life,Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City was initially released in 1984. Twenty years later it is still an important book, and it has been an influence on a generation of writers, including me. McInerney’s career since has been one of highs (Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages) and lows (Ransom, The Story of my Li….Read More
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Brightness Falls
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Glamorama
The author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world.In his most ambitious and gripping… Continue Reading Posted in: New York (State) New York, Political Fiction, Suspense Fiction
Story of My Life
In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. Alison Poole, twenty going on 40,000, is a budding actress already fatally… Continue Reading Posted in: American Humorous Fiction, Bildungsromans, Sex Customs, United States, Women's Psychological Fiction
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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… Continue Reading Posted in: Art History, Literary Fiction, Manners And Customs, Social Life And Customs, Soul Music
Less Than Zero
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Bright Lights, Big City
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