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A Good Place To Start
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| Bright Lights, Big City | 1 | |
| Brightness Falls | 1 |
A Bad Place To Start
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| The Good Life | 1 |
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Jay McInerney (1955 - )
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I've read the first four novels and found them so different from each other that I can't compare or rank them. However, I just read in an interview that McInerney himself considers BRIGHTNESS FALLS to be his best.
krisk April 7th, 2006 05:33 PM PST
Read The Good Life this past week and will now work backwards with his other works, I think. It made that time just before 9/11 and after come back so vividly . The themes of loss and family and infidelity were explored without sentimentality and the characters become so alive for me. Satisfying in every way.
richard October 25th, 2006 08:22 AM PST
Brightness Falls is terrific, The Good Life is mushy and banal.
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Jay McInerney (born 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American writer. He lives in New York City and writes for U.S. and U.K. publications. Best known for novels, he also edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices and wrote the screenplays for Bright Lights, Big City and Gia.
cInerney studied writing with Raymond Carver, and worked as a fact-checker at THE NEW YORKER, much like his unnamed protagonist in BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY. His career began with the zeitgeist; BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY was unique in 1984 for its depiction of cocaine culture and its second person narrative. BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY established his reputation as part of a new generation of writers, labeled the "literary brat pack" by the media. Bret Easton Ellis's LESS THAN ZERO was initially promoted as following McInerney's example. McInerney has struggled to separate his identity from the "pack" and against the image of himself as both the author and protagonist of Bright Lights, Big City.
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His homepage has links to interviews with and articles about him: http://jaymcinerney.com
Marian March 19th, 2006 05:15 PM PST