Jay McInerney

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 Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again, it might not... So begins our nameless hero's trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrow's hangover may be caused by more than simple excess. Bright Lights, Big City is an acclaimed classic which marked Jay McInerney as one of the major writers of our time.

Bright Lights, Big City

This novel focuses on a section of 1980s Manhattan culture. Beautiful, blunt, world-weary and 20, Alison depicts the group-indulgence and parental indifference that conspire against her, as her plight is drawn with humour and finesse.

Story of My Life

Russell and Corrine Calloway seem to be living the New York dream. Then Corrine's world is turned upside down when the man with whom she'd had an ill-fated affair in the wake of 9/11 suddenly reappears. As the novel unfolds across a period of stupendous change, the Calloways will find themselves and their marriage tested more severely than they ever could have anticipated. Print run 75,000.

Bright, Precious Days

Chronicles the lives of diverse characters--including Luke McGavock, a man searching for a sense of purpose in life; Corrine Calloway, a mother of twins; and her husband, Russell--whose world is transformed by the catastrophic events of September 11th, 20

The Good Life

Married and in love, Russell and Corrine Calloway are blessed with nuptial bliss and a life at the center of a large and varied cast of the beautiful and wealthy in the booming metropolis of New York. Reprint. NYT. Tour.

Brightness Falls

The Last of the Savages

Worlds collide, relationships fragment and the dark underbelly of the American dream is exposed. A transsexual prostitute accidentally propositions his own father; a senator's serial infidelities leave him in hot water; two young lovers spend Christmas together high on different drugs. McInerney's characters struggle together in a shifting world where old certainties dissolve and nobody can be sure of where they stand. HOW IT ENDED is a powerful, funny and moving collection by one of the great storytellers of our time. 'Metropolitan, middle-class young people grow up to learn that their triumphs will be hollow and their relationships false. McInerney flourishes amid the desolation: a kind of breezy, upbeat tone informs these dry, sardonic meditations on worldliness' ESQUIRE

How it Ended

'I'm sick of all this pointless glamour,' his glamorous girlfriend said. 'I want a simple life.' If only Connor McNab had listened. Now Philomena is off to California, allegedly on a fashion shoot, but he doesn't know where she is staying and a sinking feeling tells him that she might never come back. Connor's friend Jeremy Green is no help: he is the 'famous short-story writer' (which they both agree is an oxymoron) with an imminent publication date and some people holding his dog to ransom for reasons too Machiavellian to blurb. Connor's sister Brook, genius mathematician and anorexic, is too busy anguishing over Rwanda and Bosnia. His editor at Ciao Bella is only concerned about the suddenly elusive celebrity of the month. Thanks goodness for Pallas, a knock-out table dancer with a heart of gold.

Model Behaviour

In a selection of vivid, witty essays, the best-selling author of Bright Lights, Big City and wine columnist for House & Garden shares his thoughts on wine, including reds, whites, dessert wines, champagnes, and aperitifs, and wine culture, lore, myths, and personalities, with advice for shopping and ordering in restaurants. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Adventures in the Wine Cellar

Bacchus and Me

Jay McInerney Omnibus

Adventures in Wine

A Hedonist in the Cellar

Vinous Veritas

Juice

La luce dei giorni

Gensyn med nogle af personerne fra romanen "Brightness Falls" (1992), som nu 10 år efter oplever 9/11 på nærmeste hold, en begivenhed som ændrer deres liv for altid og får dem til at reflektere over tilværelsens virkelige værdier

Een jongeman die er in New York maar op los leeft komt na een periode vol pech en ongelukjes tot het besef dat zijn schijnbare succes een zinloos leven verbergt.

Le mille luci di New York

Com'è finita

From the bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls comes a chronicle of a generation, as enacted by two men who represent all the passions and extremes of the class of 1969. Patrick Keane and Will Savage meet at prep school at the beginning of the explosive '60s. Over the next 30 years, they remain friends even as they pursue radically divergent destinies--and harbor secrets that defy rebellion and conformity.

After a tragic experience at the Khyber Pass, American Christopher Ransom settles in Kyoto, Japan, where his life is structured by the rigors of karate and the expatriate circle frequenting an American-style blues bar

A Novel

Ransom

Ransom, Jay McInerney's second novel, belongs to the distinguished tradition of novels about exile. 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, chiefly through the rigors of karate. Supporting himself by teaching English to eager Japanese businessmen, he finds company with impresario Miles Ryder and fellow expatriates whose headquarters is Buffalo Rome, a blues-bar that satisfies the hearty local appetite for Americana and accommodates the drifters pouring through Asia in the years immediately after the fall of Vietnam.Increasingly, Ransom and his circle are threatened, by everything they thought they had left behind, in a sequence of events whose consequences Ransom can forestall but cannot change.Jay McInerney details the pattern of adventure and disillusionment that leads Christopher Ransom toward an inevitable reckoning with his fate—in a novel of grand scale and serious implications.

Hīrğīh (is Georges Remi.)

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