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Bright, Precious Days

A Novel

A novel

A novel

By Jay McInerney

By Jay McInerney

By Jay McInerney

By Jay McInerney

By Jay McInerney
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By Jay McInerney
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May 30, 2017 | ISBN 9781101972267

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Aug 02, 2016 | ISBN 9781101948019

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Aug 02, 2016 | 812 Minutes

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    About Bright, Precious Days

    This unforgettable New York story of glamour, sex, ambition, and heartbreak begins in the heady days before the financial crash. Russell and Corrine Calloway seem to be living the dream: a calendar filled with high-society parties; jobs they care about and enjoy; twin children, a boy and a girl whose birth was truly miraculous; a loft in TriBeCa and summers in the Hamptons. But beneath the glossy surfaces, things are simmering. Russell, editor-in-chief of a boutique publisher, has cultural clout but is on the edge financially, and feels compelled to pursue an audacious—and potentially ruinous—opportunity. Meanwhile, Corrine’s world is turned upside down when the man with whom she’d had an ill-fated affair in the wake of 9/11 suddenly reappears, and the Calloways find themselves tested more severely than they ever could have imagined. The third book in McInerney’s celebrated Calloway trilogy, Bright, Precious Days is an aching, extraordinary portrait of a marriage during a period of dizzying change.

    About Bright, Precious Days

    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 they’re 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-changing—or ruinous—opportunity. 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 they’re being priced out of the newly fashionable neighborhood they’ve called home for most of their adult lives, with their son and daughter caught in the balance.

    Then Corrine’s world is turned upside down when the man with whom she’d had an ill-fated affair in the wake of 9/11 suddenly reappears. As the novel unfolds across a period of stupendous change—including Obama’s historic election and the global economic collapse he inherited—the Calloways will find themselves and their marriage tested more severely than they ever could have imagined.

    About Bright, Precious Days

    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 they’re 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-changing—or ruinous—opportunity. 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 they’re being priced out of the newly fashionable neighborhood they’ve called home for most of their adult lives, with their son and daughter caught in the balance.

    Then Corrine’s world is turned upside down when the man with whom she’d had an ill-fated affair in the wake of 9/11 suddenly reappears. As the novel unfolds across a period of stupendous change—including Obama’s historic election and the global economic collapse he inherited—the Calloways will find themselves and their marriage tested more severely than they ever could have imagined.

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    About Jay McInerney

    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. 

    About Jay McInerney

    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. 

    About Jay McInerney

    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. 

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    May 30, 2017 | 416 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781101972267

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 02, 2016 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9781101948019

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Aug 02, 2016 | 812 Minutes | ISBN 9780735206991

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    Praise

    “An art form of sustained intimacy. . . . A portrait of a marriage in full.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “Our modern-day Fitzgerald.” —Vanity Fair

    “Irresistible.” —San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “Quietly affecting. . . . Mellow, earnest, almost elegiac.” —The New Yorker

    “McInerney is the writer who is funniest and most precise about the view from New York City.” —Harper’s

    “McInerney delivers encounters and relationships, at times hilarious and exhilarating or excruciating between and among those individuals who are compelled to live nowhere else but on that tiny sliver of granite—Manhattan. Non-residents worldwide will enjoy the fates of these metropolitan dancers who wriggle, pop, squirm and sizzle under the searing red ray of McInerney’s magnifying glass.” —Dan Aykroyd

    “In this powerful portrait of a marriage and a city in the shadow of the looming subprime mortgage crisis, McInerney observes the passage of life’s seasons with aching and indelible clarity.” —Booklist

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