Jay McInerney

Russell Calloway es un brillante y ambicioso editor y su mujer, la fascinante Corrine, una joven agente de Bolsa que trabaja en Wall Street. Llevan casados poco tiempo, pero a sus amigos les parece que forman un matrimonio perfecto.En la vida de los Calloway todo parece ir sobre ruedas, al igual que en la ciudad: viven en el acelerado Manhattan de mediados de los ochenta donde el dinero abunda tanto como la cocaina y las oportunidades no escasean para quienes tengan talento y ganas de aprovecharlas. Sin embargo, las señales de que algo va mal empiezan a ser visibles: solo hace falta que alguien quiera verlas.Publicada por primera vez en 1992,Al caer la luz es una maravillosa novela sobre un matrimonio que empieza a dejar atras su dorada juventud pero tambien una elegia al Nueva York anterior al crac del 87, una ciudad mucho mas variada y extrema que la actual. Esta es una de las obras mas celebradas de Jay McInerney, quien supo combinar comedia social y drama para crear una historia y unos personajes genuinamente inolvidables.Es el Scott Fitzgerald de nuestro tiempo.Anderson Tepper (Vanity Fair)McInerney no solo demuestra ser un estilista brillante sino tambien un maestro de la construccion de personajes, siempre atento a las contradicciones de la vida urban...

Tras superar no pocas dificultades, el matrimonio Calloway sigue unido. Russell continúa trabajando como editor, aunque en un puesto menos importante, y Corrine ha dejado su trabajo en la bolsa para dedicarse a sus dos hijos pequeños y a escribir un guion cinematografico.En el Upper East Side, Luke McGavock, un multimillonario gestor de inversiones, ha decidido tomarse un año sabatico para poder dedicar mas tiempo a su mujer y su hija adolescente. Sin embargo, una mañana de septiembre de 2001 el cielo de Nueva York se oscurece y en los dias posteriores, gente que no estaba destinada a encontrarse termina trabajando mano a mano en las tareas de reconstruccion de la ciudad.En La buena vida, Jay McInerney retoma a sus dos personajes mas carismaticos y se emplea en lo que sabe hacer mejor: presentarnos la complejidad social y moral de la ciudad de Nueva York y a unos personajes en los que encontraremos ecos de nuestras propias vidas.Conmovedor, sabio y tambien sorprendente en su retrato de una pasion despertada por las casualidades. De todos los libros sobre el 11S es quiza el unico que consiga permanecer.ArenaMcInerney hace lo que debe hacer un buen novelista: tomar una idea abstracta e insuflarle vida.Alain de BottonEl tema del libro es el cataclismo del 11S y McInerney lo hace suyo con la autoridad y la conviccion del autentico maestro McInerney se une aqui a un pequeño numero de novelistas que nos hacen cambiar la manera en la que vemos la historia de los Estados Unidos.Sunday Telegraph

A New York, Russell lutte pour garder sa maison d'édition tandis que sa femme, Corrine, se consacre aux plus démunis. Mais un homme avec qui Corinne a eu une liaison au lendemain du 11 septembre ressurgit dans leur entourage et fragilise l'équilibre de la famille

"Corrine e Russel hanno due gemelli nati da una fecondazione artificiale. Luke e Sasha hanno una figlia ribelle, Ashley. Sono due famiglie newyorkesi ricche e colte, ma solo apparentemente felici, il cui precario equilibrio si rompe in seguito all'11 settembre. Luke e scampato alla tragedia per un banale ritardo; Corrine fa la volontaria nelle squadre di supporto alle forze dell'ordine che scavano tra le rovine. Sull'onda degli avvenimenti Luke e Corrine si innamorano, sognando di poter recuperare una giovinezza perduta e ricominciare una nuova vita sulle rovine di quella precedente. Ma quando Ashley, la figlia di Luke, finira in ospedale per un'overdose, l'entusiasmo si esaurira e tutto rientrera nella normalita. Forse. "

"Vite di coppia fatte di contraddizioni: tradimenti e condivisione, passioni adultere e sicurezze tutte casalinghe. Jay Mclnerney punta la sua lente sulla vita quotidiana di coppie dall'immagine invidiabile: professionisti, intellettuali, artisti rampanti e ricchi disinibiti come in ""Sex and the City"", superficiali come in ""Glamorama"", narcisisti come in una commedia di Woody Allen. E mentre le giornate scorrono - tra amplessi frettolosi, gravidanze interrotte ma in fondo desiderate, litigi familiari che non si fermano neanche di fronte a un lutto - la commedia umana va avanti, irresistibile e grottesca, malinconica e insidiosa, comunque sempre struggente. "

"Vite di coppia fatte di contraddizioni: tradimenti e condivisione, passioni adultere e sicurezze tutte casalinghe. Jay McInerney punta la sua lente sulla vita quotidiana di coppie dall'immagine invidiabile, coppie con un rapporto segnato a volte da grande passione, ma quasi sempre misterioso, ricco di silenzi e di segreti, piu che di confidenza e di abbandono reciproco. E mentre le giornate scorrono - tra amplessi frettolosi, gravidanze interrotte ma in fondo desiderate, litigi familiari che non si fermano neanche di fronte a un lutto -la commedia umana va avanti, irresistibile e grottesca, malinconica e insidiosa, comunque sempre struggente. "

Jay McInerney, internationally celebrated author of Bright Lights, Big City, turns his hand here to his lifelong love affair with wine. Peals of wisdom are offered on the subjects of the best wine for romantics, the parallels between Californian wines and floundering Hollywood stars, the choice of wine for the author's own debauched forty-eighth birthday party, the 'high-testosterone grape' that is Colin Farrell, absinthe, 'the wild green fairy', and what wine is best drunk with chocolate. At the same time McInerney is a genuine connoisseur, taking the reader on a tour through the wine regions of the world and imparting tried and tested advice on grapes and vintages, bouquets, noses and finishes.

In true McInerney style, this new collection of stories examines post 9/11 America in all its dark and morally complex glory. His characters include a young woman holed up in a remote cabin while her (married) boyfriend campaigns for the highest of all offices, a couple whose sexual experiments cross every line imaginable, a young socialite called home to nurse her mother and an older one scheming for her next husband. From the streets of downtown New York during the 2003 anti-war march and the lavish hotel rooms of the wealthy social elite, to a husband and wife who share a marital bed with a pot-bellied pig, the people in these stories search for meaning while struggling against each other, colliding as the old world around them fractures and dissolves into a modern era full of new uncertainties, where ghosts of loss hang in the air. McInerney's writing has crackling humour and a feverish, clear-sighted brilliance that perfectly underpins the lives of people living in modern America. These stories are deftly constructed, subtle, insightful and heartbreaking. Steeped in history but yet alive in the present - this new collection is a companion to the sweet madness of life

An astonishingly funny and poignant new collection of short stories from Jay McInerney - one of the pre-eminent writers of his generation.

From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation, a collection of twenty-six stories, new and old, that trace the arc of his career for nearly three decades.

From the best-selling author of Bright Lights, Big City: a sexy, vibrant, cross-generational New York story--a literary and commercial triumph of the highest order. Even decades after their arrival, Corrine and Russell Calloway still feel as if theyre living the dream that drew them to New York City in the first place: book parties or art openings one night and high-society events the next; jobs they care about (and in fact love); twin children whose birth was truly miraculous; a loft in TriBeCa and summers in the Hamptons. But all of this comes at a fiendish cost. Russell, an independent publisher, has superb cultural credentials yet minimal cash flow; as he navigates a business that requires, beyond astute literary judgment, constant financial improvisation, he encounters an audacious, potentially game-changingor ruinousopportunity. Meanwhile, instead of chasing personal gain in this incredibly wealthy city, Corrine devotes herself to helping feed its hungry poor, and she and her husband soon discover theyre being priced out of the newly fashionable neighborhood theyve called home for most of their adult lives, with their son and daughter caught in the balance. Then Corrines world is turned upside down when the man with whom shed had an ill-fated affair in the wake of 9/11 suddenly reappears. As the novel unfolds across a period of stupendous changeincluding Obamas historic election and the global economic collapse he inheritedthe Calloways will find themselves and their marriage tested more severely than they ever could have imagined. From the Hardcover edition.

t's 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is running his own publishing company, and clinging to their downtown loft; Corrine manages a charity, and is desperate to move somewhere with more space for their twins. Although they try to forget each other's past indiscretions, when Jeff Pierce's posthumous novel garners a new cult following, the memory of their friend begins to haunt the couple, and their increasingly unstable marriage is not helped by the unexpected reappearance of Corrine's former lover. Acutely observed and brilliantly told, Bright, Precious Days dissects the moral complexities of relationships - the mistakes we make and love's ability to adapt and survive them - confirming McInerney as a great chronicler of our life and times.

Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Theirs is the generation that flew too close to the sun on wings of cocaine - and whose lives changed irrevocably when planes crashed into the Twin Towers. Now, in 2008, Russell runs his own publishing house and Corrine manages a food redistribution programme. He clings to their loft and the illusion of downtown bohemia, while she longs to have more space for their twelve-year-old twins. Although they try to forget each other's past indiscretions, when Jeff Pierce's posthumous, autobiographical novel garners a new cult following, the memory of their friend begins to haunt the couple, and their marriage feels increasingly unstable. Not helped by the reappearance of Corrine's former lover, Luke McGavock, whose ardour seems no cooler despite having a beautiful new wife in tow. Acutely observed and brilliantly told, Bright, Precious Days dissects the moral complexities of relationships, while painting a portrait of New York as Obama and Clinton battle for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. A moving, deeply humane novel about the mistakes we make, persistence in struggle and love's ability to adapt and survive, it confirms McInerney as a great chronicler of our times.

McInerney's novel of 9/11 and its aftershocks offers acute cultural observation before sinking into a sappy romance. The subject ensures that McInerney will generate more attention than he has since his debut (Bright Lights, Big City, 1984). Now that the novelist is a couple decades more mature, the urban hipsters he once chronicled have begun to suffer from marital malaise and mid-life crises , exacerbated by the terrorist attacks, which cause them to question the very essence of their existence. If life can never be the same again, what could it possibly become? Death serves as the ultimate aphrodisiac, sparking a Ground Zero soup-kitchen affair between Corrine Calloway and Luke McGavock, after their chance meeting lets both realize the emptiness of their marriages. The infertile mother of twins (through a silly subplot concerning the insemination of her slutty sister), Corrine is attempting to establish herself as a screenwriter after staying home to raise the kids, with her publisher husband Russell supporting the family. Where Corrine and Russell seemed to be sleepwalking through their marriage before the 9/11 wake-up call, Luke had already tried to make drastic changes—quitting his lucrative Wall Street job to find inner purpose, much to the dismay of his unfaithful socialite wife and their precociously jaded teenage daughter. They much preferred him as a meal ticket than a pervasive presence in their lives. Though McInerney has a sharp eye for the values and foibles of the upscale tribes of Manhattan (as if reporting undercover, a spy on the circuit of book parties, charity bashes and pricey restaurants), the dialogue and interior monologues through which Corrine and Luke proceed with their affair would be embarrassing, overheated cliché even by bodice-ripping standards. The results read like a shotgun marriage between social anthropology and soap opera.The title suggests a number of questions—What constitutes the good life? Is it possible to sustain it in post-9/11 New York? Can it be bought? Or earned?—that the author fails to resolve.