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Bacchus and MeAdventures in the Wine Cellar by Jay McInerney
Category: Food & Wine
Jay McInerney on wine?Yes, Jay McInerney on wine! The best-selling novelist has turned his command of language and flair for metaphor on the world of wine, providing this sublime collection of untraditional musings on wine and wine culture that is as fit for someone looking for “a nice Chardonnay” as it ...Show more
Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstr ...Show more
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction
'A rambunctious, deadly funny novel that goes for the right mark - the human heart' Raymond Carver You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivia ...Show more
Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction
'Stylish observation . Suspenseful and well told' Lionel Shriver, Financial TimesIt is 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is runnin ...Show more
Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction
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 tru ...Show more
Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction
It's 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is running his own publishing company, and clinging to their downtown loft; Corrine manages ...Show more
Bright, Precious Days (H/B) by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction
Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Theirs is the generation that flew too close to the sun on wings of cocaine - and whose lives changed irrevocably when planes crashed into the Twin Towers. Now, in 2008, Russell runs his own publishing house and C ...Show more
Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction
Corrine Calloway is a young stockbroker on Wall Street, her husband Russell an underpaid but ambitious publishing editor. The happily married couple head into New York's 1980s gold rush, awash with prospects and promise, where the best and brightest vie with the worst and most craven for riches, fame an ...Show more
Good Life by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction | Series: Ten years on from Brightness Falls
Luke McGavock, in the enviable position of having made more money than he can spend, has chosen to take a sabbatical in which he might recover the sense of purpose suddenly lacking in his life. But his wife is more than up to the task of spending and very much a part of Upper East Side society, which af ...Show more
New York by New York by Jay McInerney (Foreword by); Wendell Jamieson (Text by)
Category: Travel
New York: a city so evocative that poets, musicians, and artists have dedicated their greatest works to glorifying it. This illustrious city has always been a melting pot of culture from all corners of the world. New York by New York is an intoxicating, all-inclusive journey through this inimitable etho ...Show more
The Juice: Vinous Veritas by Jay McInerney
Category: Food & Wine
One of America's best novelists Jay McInerney is also well-known for being a wine connoisseur. Since beginning to drink wine, in emulation of his literary and cultural heroes - which he admits were not only Hemingway and Fitzgerald but also the characters that they gave birth to - the writer's understan ...Show more