The Last of the Savages
 Amazon.com Review: McInerney recounts nearly three decades of history through the lives of prep school roommates Patrick Keane and Will Savage. Keane, the narrator, goes the corporate law route. Savage is the rebellious scion of an aristocratic family [... more]
$13.95
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Ransom
Lot of exposition, not too much payoff: After reading Bright Lights, Big City and Story of My Life, I went into this novel thinking I had an idea of what to expect. Very wrong. This novel is quite different from those too, and I can't say that that's [... more]
$15.95
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The Last of the Savages
Amazon.com Review: McInerney recounts nearly three decades of history through the lives of prep school roommates Patrick Keane and Will Savage. Keane, the narrator, goes the corporate law route. Savage is the rebellious scion of an aristocratic family [... more]
$24.00
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Brightness Falls
Elegiac: One can stand at a distance and criticize this novel as a tale of two self-absorbed yuppies, or one can come closer and actually read the book and find that it's not so easy to dismiss. Corinne and Russell are very real people, and McInerney [... more]
$23.00
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The Good Life
Amazon.com Review: Amazon.com Exclusive: James Frey Reviews The Good Life Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City was initially released in 1984. Twenty years later it is still an important book, and it has been an influence on a generation of writers, [... more]
$14.95
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Bright Lights, Big City
Much before the loss of the innocence: Jay McInerney's funny and smart debut "Bright Lights, Big City" was published about 25 years ago. The current Vintage Contemporary edition features in its cover a drawing of a men entering the Odeon and [... more]
$13.95
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Ransom
Lot of exposition, not too much payoff: After reading Bright Lights, Big City and Story of My Life, I went into this novel thinking I had an idea of what to expect. Very wrong. This novel is quite different from those too, and I can't say that that's [... more]
$15.00
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The Good Life
Amazon.com Review: Amazon.com Exclusive: James Frey Reviews The Good Life Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City was initially released in 1984. Twenty years later it is still an important book, and it has been an influence on a generation of writers, [... more]
$29.95
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The Good Life
Amazon.com Review: Amazon.com Exclusive: James Frey Reviews The Good Life Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City was initially released in 1984. Twenty years later it is still an important book, and it has been an influence on a generation of writers, [... more]
$25.00
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Model Behavior
Amazon.com Review: Readers familiar with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights Big City may feel a sense of déjà vu when reading Model Behavior. Once again our hero is a small cog in the glamorous Manhattan media machine. Yet although the players [... more]
$12.00
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Story of My Life
is this the book based in part on Rielle Hunter?: I have not read this book, so I gave it a neutral review even though it's not the type of book I tend to read. I read today, in a comment on NYT website, that the female character in this book was based [... more]
$13.00
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Manhattan Transfer (Penguin Modern Classics)
Literary Subway Ride: Manhattan Transfer is a subway ride through New York - both across its geographic landscape - a burgeoning metropolis, the heart of the American economy; but also, slums, dark alleys and industrial wasteland. Likewise it is a ride [... more]
$18.60
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