Jay Mcinerney

The Last Bachelor (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

_______________ 'Stories of sex and money set in and around New York City, where gentle satire and situation comedy give way to dark epiphanies about doomed marriages or social failures' - Guardian 'Elegant, sly and blackly humorous' - Daily Mail _______________ An astonishingly funny and poignant new collection of short stories from Jay McInerney - one of the pre-eminent writers of his generation. In true McInerney style, this new collection of stories examines post 9/11 America in all its dark and morally complex glory. His characters include a young woman holed up in a remote cabin while her (married) boyfriend campaigns for the highest of all offices, a couple whose sexual experiments cross every line imaginable, a young socialite called home to nurse her mother and an older one scheming for her next husband. From the streets of downtown New York during the 2003 anti-war march and the lavish hotel rooms of the wealthy social elite, to a husband and wife who share a marital bed with a pot-bellied pig, the people in these stories search for meaning while struggling against each other, colliding as the old world around them fractures and dissolves into a modern era full of new uncertainties, where ghosts of loss hang in the air. McInerney's writing has crackling humour and a feverish, clear-sighted brilliance that perfectly underpins the lives of people living in modern America. These stories are deftly constructed, subtle, insightful and heartbreaking. Steeped in history but yet alive in the present - this new collection is a companion to the sweet madness of life

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408854730
• Artikelnr.: 40532611

Autorenporträt

Jay McInerney came to prominence in 1984 with his first novel Bright Lights, Big City. He is the author of seven further novels: Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages, Model Behaviour, The Good Life and Bright, Precious Days, two short story collections, and three non-fiction books on wine, one of which was the acclaimed A Hedonist in the Cellar. He writes a wine column for Town and Country and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times Book Review and Corriere della Sera. He lives in Manhattan and Bridgehampton, New York.

jaymcinerney.com / @JayMcInerney