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Loading... The Good Life (edition 2007)by Jay McInerney
Work InformationThe Good Life by Jay McInerney
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Loved it. No ifs, ands, or buts. Wasn't sure at first.....it starts with a dinner party and lots of name dropping of famous writers...but it's not about that. It's about relationships, love, loyalties, and how an external event (in this case, 9/11) can bring our lives into focus. What I liked about this novel was that it talked about individuals -- not a pulling together as a society -- and this made it different. I loved the deep character development, and felt I came to know the two main characters (Corrine and Luke) very well. So well that I predicted the ending, but in a good way -- the way you sometimes just know what a good friend or family member will do. ( ) Read my review here: http://from7eight.com/the-good-life/ no reviews | add a review
Hailed 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 see–through personal, social, and moral complexity–more clearly into the heart of things. From the Hardcover edition. No library descriptions found. |
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