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Good Life by Jay McInerney (2006, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375411402
ISBN-139780375411403
eBay Product ID (ePID)46829868
Product Key Features
Book TitleGood Life
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicPsychological, Literary, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorJay Mcinerney
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight24.5 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-044370
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"A novel that is both tender and entertaining . . . about shallowness and what might replace it [in a] relentlessly secular world, where there are no easy sources of redemption . . . McInerney's concern is not terrorism or politics but love: how relationships can disintegrate through children and routine, the tension between love and sex and what can keep a union alive, [and he] delivers it with grace and wit." --Alain de Botton, "Publishers Weekly," signature review "McInerney probes the human response to tragedy, and the complexity of human desire, with both precision and empathy. He is a master at finding the truths we barely admit even to ourselves; without moralizing, he explores the ways we use disaster to our own emotional ends, and above all, whether we're really capable of change. A day that most people said would change us all forever seems now to have provided only a vacation from our bad habits. Like the marriages in this novel, the intensity of feeling just can't last. There have been a number of 9/11 novels lately, as writers grapple with what that terrible day means to us. This one is essential." --Keir Graff, "Booklist," starred review "[McInerney's] New York takes on a life of its own, becoming as much a character as any of the two-legged kind . . . Inveterate Gothamites will especially appreciate this love story between kindred spirits and between city dwellers and their wounded mecca." --Bette-Lee Fox, "Library Journal" "His best book since "Bright Lights, Big City . . . "a very subtle, incredibly insightful, heartbreaking story about life in New York, about marriage, about children and the choices they force us to make, about love and longing, about thesearch for meaning in our lives. It's a book about hope and how we find it, sustain and lose it, and it's a book about loss and how we deal with it . . . People wonder what kind of writer Fitzgerald might have been had he lived. McInerney, his closest successor, is starting to show us." --James Frey, "Amazon.com", "McInerney probes the human response to tragedy, and the complexity of human desire, with both precision and empathy. He is a master at finding the truths we barely admit even to ourselves; without moralizing, he explores the ways we use disaster to our own emotional ends, and above all, whether we're really capable of change. A day that most people said would change us all forever seems now to have provided only a vacation from our bad habits. Like the marriages in this novel, the intensity of feeling just can't last. There have been a number of 9/11 novels lately, as writers grapple with what that terrible day means to us. This one is essential." -Keir Graff, Booklist, starred review, "His best book since Bright Lights, Big City . . . a very subtle, incredibly insightful, heartbreaking story about life in New York, about marriage, about children and the choices they force us to make, about love and longing, about the search for meaning in our lives. It's a book about hope and how we find it, sustain and lose it, and it's a book about loss and how we deal with it . . . People wonder what kind of writer Fitzgerald might have been had he lived. McInerney, his closest successor, is starting to show us." --James Frey "A novel that is both tender and entertaining . . . about shallowness and what might replace it [in a] relentlessly secular world, where there are no easy sources of redemption . . . McInerney's concern is not terrorism or politics but love: how relationships can disintegrate through children and routine, the tension between love and sex and what can keep a union alive, [and he] delivers it with grace and wit." --Alain de Botton, Publishers Weekly, signature review "McInerney probes the human response to tragedy, and the complexity of human desire, with both precision and empathy. He is a master at finding the truths we barely admit even to ourselves; without moralizing, he explores the ways we use disaster to our own emotional ends, and above all, whether we're really capable of change. A day that most people said would change us all forever seems now to have provided only a vacation from our bad habits. Like the marriages in this novel, the intensity of feeling just can't last. There have been a number of 9/11 novels lately, as writers grapple with what that terrible day means to us. This one is essential." --Keir Graff, Booklist, starred review "[McInerney's] New York takes on a life of its own, becoming as much a character as any of the two-legged kind . . . Inveterate Gothamites will especially appreciate this love story between kindred spirits and between city dwellers and their wounded mecca." --Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal From the Hardcover edition., "A novel that is both tender and entertaining . . . about shallowness and what might replace it [in a] relentlessly secular world, where there are no easy sources of redemption . . . McInerney's concern is not terrorism or politics but love: how relationships can disintegrate through children and routine, the tension between love and sex and what can keep a union alive, [and he] delivers it with grace and wit." --Alain de Botton, Publishers Weekly, signature review "McInerney probes the human response to tragedy, and the complexity of human desire, with both precision and empathy. He is a master at finding the truths we barely admit even to ourselves; without moralizing, he explores the ways we use disaster to our own emotional ends, and above all, whether we're really capable of change. A day that most people said would change us all forever seems now to have provided only a vacation from our bad habits. Like the marriages in this novel, the intensity of feeling just can't last. There have been a number of 9/11 novels lately, as writers grapple with what that terrible day means to us. This one is essential." --Keir Graff, Booklist, starred review "[McInerney's] New York takes on a life of its own, becoming as much a character as any of the two-legged kind . . . Inveterate Gothamites will especially appreciate this love story between kindred spirits and between city dwellers and their wounded mecca." --Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal "His best book since Bright Lights, Big City . . . a very subtle, incredibly insightful, heartbreaking story about life in New York, about marriage, about children and the choices they force us to make, about love and longing, about the search for meaning in our lives. It's a book about hope and how we find it, sustain and lose it, and it's a book about loss and how we deal with it . . . People wonder what kind of writer Fitzgerald might have been had he lived. McInerney, his closest successor, is starting to show us." --James Frey, Amazon.com From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisHailed byNewsweekas "a superb and humane social critic" with, according toThe Wall Street Journal,"all the true instincts of a major novelist," Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far. Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are thoroughly wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing less than miraculous, even as they contend with the faded promise of a marriage tinged with suspicion and deceit. Meanwhile, 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-especially with regard to his teenage daughter, whose wanton extravagance bears a horrifying resemblance to her mother's. 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, feeling lost anywhere else, yet battered still by memory and regret, by fresh disappointment and unimaginable shock. What happens, or should happen, when life stops us in our tracks, or our own choices do? What if both secrets and secret needs, long guarded steadfastly, are finally revealed? Whatisthe good life? Posed with astonishing understanding and compassion, these questions power a novel rich with characters and events, both comic and harrowing, revelatory about not only New York after the attacks but also the toll taken on those lucky enough to have survived them. Wise, surprising, and, ultimately, heart-stoppingly redemptive,The Good Lifecaptures lives that allow us to seethrough personal, social, and moral complexitymore clearly into the heart of things., Rich with characters and events both comic and harrowing, this novel reveals a time and place, and the lives impacted by the events that occurred on 9/11 in New York--people battered by memory, regret, and unimaginable shock and yet determined to discover what the good life truly is.
LC Classification NumberPS3563.C3694G66 2006
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