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Mar 31, 1993 | ISBN 9780679745327 Buy
Aug 17, 2011 | ISBN 9780307763228 Buy
Jul 12, 2016 | 923 Minutes Buy
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Mar 31, 1993 | ISBN 9780679745327
Aug 17, 2011 | ISBN 9780307763228
Jul 12, 2016 | ISBN 9780735206014
923 Minutes
Combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us a novel that is stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting. As he maps the fault lines spreading through the once-impenetrable marriage of Russell and Corrine Calloway and chronicles Russell’s wildly ambitious scheme to seize control of the publishing house at which he works, Jay McInerney creates an elegy for New York in the 1980s. From the literary chimeras and corporate raiders to those dispossessed by the pandemonium of money and power, Brightness Falls captures a rash era at its moment of reckoning and gives reality back to a time that now seems decidedly unreal.
Jay McInerney is the author of eight novels, two collections of short stories, and three collections of essays on wine. His latest book, Bright, Precious Days, was published in 2016. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York.
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