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**Once again brilliantly combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us the stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting final volume in the tetralogy charting the marriage of Russell and Corrinne Calloway, now in their sixties, against the backdrop of various crises that have bedeviled our society in the past forty years.“McInerney’s always-sharp insights on social strata and human nature gua...

**With this publication in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. This remarkable novel of youth and New York remains one of the most beloved, imitated, and iconic novels in America."A brilliant and moving work—unique, refreshing, imaginatively powerful and authentically conceived."—The New York Times**The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial o...

In this bestselling novel, the author of Bright Lights, Big City unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in a powerfully searing work of fiction.Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing less than miraculous. Several miles uptown and perched near the top of the Upper East Side’s social register...

From the author of Bright Lights, Big City comes a novel detailing the pattern of adventure and disillusionment that leads a man toward an inevitable reckoning with his fate.Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, Christopher Ransom seeks a purity and simplicity he could not find at home, and tries to exorcise the terror he encountered earlier in his travels—a blur of violence and death at the Khyber Pass.Ransom has managed to regain control...

A "brilliant" novel of a party girl in 1980s Manhattan, by the author of Bright Lights, Big City ( The Sunday Times).Twenty-something aspiring actress Alison Poole is well versed in hopping the clubs, shopping Chanel, falling in and out of lust, and abusing other people's credit cards. As she traverses nocturnal New York with her coterie of coke-addicted friends—and races toward emotional breakdown—the author of Brightness Falls and other...

**From the author of Bright Lights, Big City comes an unforgettable New York story of glamour, sex, ambition, and heartbreak.“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**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 ...

**From the author Bright Lights, Big City, a brilliantly crafted story that unveils the fault lines within a marriage and the profound consequences of ambition."A wicked pleasure to read"—Boston Globe**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 Yo...

A collection of essays from the acclaimed author of Bright Lights, Big City. Here McInerney provides a master class in the almost infinite varieties of wine and the people and places that produce it.For more than a decade, Jay McInerney's vinous essays have been praised by restaurateurs ("educational and delicious at the same time" —Mario Batali), by esteemed critics ("brilliant, witty, comical, and often shamelessly candid and provocative" —Robert Parker)...

**From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation, a collection of twenty-six stories that trace the arc of his career for nearly three decades.“Extremely entertaining. . . elegant, subtle, shapely and reflective.” —The New York Times**Only seven of these stories have ever been collected in a book, but all twenty-six unveil and re-create the manic flux of our society. Whether set in New England, Los Angeles, New York or the...

**In the time since Bright Lights, Big City reinvigorated contemporary fiction, Jay McInerney can claim a great many accomplishments, including the mantle that Salon has given him: “the best wine writer in America.”"[McInerney's] research is impeccable. . . . Wine writer or novelist, the man is a story teller and a good one"—The New York Times**In A Hedonist in the Cellar, he gathers more than five years’ worth of essays and continues his...

From the author of Bright Lights, Big City comes an incisive and compelling novel that returns to the restless isle of Manhattan, where neither wishes nor even dreams ever sleep."Smart, funny, sexy, and well observed." --EsquireIn his latest novel, Model Behavior, McInerney offers us the portrait of a doubting devotee of the city where vocation, career, and ambition (which only occassionally coincide) run ...

"For wine enthusiasts and newcomers alike, a sharp gathering of writing about wine's multidimensional, occasionally subversive pleasures." — Kirkus ReviewsIn this anthology, Jay McInerney—bestselling novelist, winner of a James Beard MFK Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing, and acclaimed wine columnist for Town & Country, Wall Street Journal, and House and Garden—selects over twenty pieces of memorable fiction and nonfiction ab...