McInerney, Jay.
Summary: A well-plotted generational portrait of a cadre of once-sweet, young, driven friends in Manhattan whose hopes and chances of success seem to be fading as the '80s totter to a close, is perhaps too intent on getting this message across to fully convince on the level of character. Corinne and Russell Calloway, the novel's focus, are married and awhirl in the nether end of limitless aspirations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1992
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Summary: "The crowning achievement from the preeminent writer of his generation: following Brightness Falls and The Good Life, Bright, Precious Things builds on a series increasingly akin to John Updike's Rabbit novels but with a long-standing if weathered couple at its heart. Russell and Corrine Calloway seem to be living the New York dream: book parties one night and high-society charity events the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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Contents: Model behavior -- The business -- Con doctor -- Smoke -- Getting in touch with Lonnie -- How it ended -- The queen and I -- Reunion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
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Summary: In this collection, we become reacquainted with the nameless night-crawling narrator of Bright Lights, Big City; with Alison Poole, the party girl of Story of My Life (and who McInerney has said was based on John Edwards's former mistress Rielle Hunter); and Collin McNab, a would-be screenwriter who enjoys a tortuous relationship with his model girlfriend. We also meet new characters, among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Summary: Written entirely in the second person, McInerney's first novel is a vivid account of cocaine addiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 1984
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Summary: A collection of essays provides an homage to the world's numerous varieties of wine and the people and places that produce it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.22 MCISummary: Based on the tragic life of America's first supermodel. It is the late 70's in New York City - the home of Studio 54, designer jeans, drugs and disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or woman - she wants. Sex, money, glamour, fame - it was all within her reach. She walks toward you across the dance floor, struts toward you down the runway, stares at you from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004