The Good Life - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jay McInerney (Paperback)

About the Book

Hailed by "Newsweek" as "a superb and humane social critic," McInerney has written a novel rich with characters and events, both comic and harrowing, revealing the moral complexities in New York after the 9/11 attacks as well as the toll taken on those lucky enough to have survived them.

Book Synopsis

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, Luke McGavock has postponed his accumulation of wealth in an attempt to recover the sense of purpose now lacking in a life that often gives him pause. But on a September morning, brightness falls horribly from the sky, and people worlds apart suddenly find themselves working side by side at the devastated site.

Wise, surprising, and, ultimately, heart-stoppingly redemptive, The Good Life captures lives that allow us to see-through personal, social, and moral complexity-more clearly into the heart of things.

Review Quotes

"A real love story . . . with a sympathy and depth new to McInerney's fiction." --The New York Times

"The Good Life is McInerney's most fully imagined novel as it is his most ambitious and elegiac." --The New York Review of Books

"A triumph."--The Village Voice

"McInerney at his narrative best."--Chicago Sun-Times

About the Author

Jay McInerney is the author of eight novels, a collection of short stories and three collections of essays on wine. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York.