Bright, Precious Days

Zusatztext “Our modern-day Fitzgerald.” —Anderson Tepper! Vanity Fair “Without any judgement but with the understanding and empathy of a brightly illuminating cultural inspector! Jay 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.” —Keir Graff! Booklist From the Hardcover edition. Informationen zum Autor Jay McInerney is the author of seven previous novels! a collection of short stories and three collections of essays on wine. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton! New York. From the Hardcover edition. Klappentext 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. Chapter 1   Once, not so very long ago, young men and women had come to the city because they loved books, because they wanted to write novels or short stories or even poems , or because they wanted to be associated with the production and distribution of those artifacts and with the people who created them. For those who haunted suburban libraries and provincial bookstores, Manhattan was the shining island of letters. New York, New York: It was right there on the title pages—the place from which the books and magazines emanated, home of all the publishers, the address of The New Yorker and The Paris Review , where Hemingway had punched O’Hara and Ginsberg seduced Kerouac, Hellman sued McCarthy and Mailer had punched everybody, where—or so they imagined—earnest editorial assistants and aspiring novelists smoked cigarettes in cafés while reciting Dylan Thomas, who’d taken his last breath in St. Vincent’s Hospital after drinking seventeen whiskeys at the White Horse Tavern, which was still serving drinks to the tourists and the young litterateurs who flocked here to raise a glass to the memory of the Welsh bard. These dreamers were people of the book; they loved the sacred New York texts: The House of Mirth , Gatsby , Breakfast at Tiffany’s et al., but also all the marginalia: the romance and the attendant mytholo...

Product details

• Authors: Jay McInerney
• Publisher: Knopf
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.07.2016
• EAN: 9780451494078
• ISBN: 978-0-451-49407-8
• No. of pages: 397
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 27 mm
• Series: ALFRED A. KNOPF
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature