The Last Bachelor by Jay Mcinerney
An astonishingly funny and poignant new collection of short stories from Jay McInerney - one of the pre-eminent writers of his generation.
‘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 *
‘Leading us behind the bedroom doors of New York's pretty and privileged people, McInerney's twelve tales work on our appetite for gossip like literary episodes of Sex and the City.. Each tale here has a clever little kick. And each comes with a twist' * Independent on Sunday *
‘In essentials, the ambience of his fiction is the same as Scott Fitgerald's Jazz Age one. So is the attitude - fascination laced with irony - that he brings to it...Everywhere, his fiction displays a Fitzgerald-like enthrallment with glamour and its tarnishing, ideals and their dissipation, charm and the way it can coarsen and sour' * Sunday Times *
‘Elegant, sly and blackly humorous' * Daily Mail *
‘Leading us behind the bedroom doors of New York's pretty and privileged people, McInerney's twelve tales work on our appetite for gossip like literary episodes of Sex and the City.. Each tale here has a clever little kick. And each comes with a twist' * Independent on Sunday *
‘In essentials, the ambience of his fiction is the same as Scott Fitgerald's Jazz Age one. So is the attitude - fascination laced with irony - that he brings to it...Everywhere, his fiction displays a Fitzgerald-like enthrallment with glamour and its tarnishing, ideals and their dissipation, charm and the way it can coarsen and sour' * Sunday Times *
‘Elegant, sly and blackly humorous' * Daily Mail *
One of a dazzling new generation of American writers (including Bret Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz), Jay McInerney came to prominence in 1984 with his first novel Bright Lights, Big City. He is the author of six further novels: Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages, Model Behaviour and The Good Life, the collection of stories How It Ended and, most recently, a work of non-fiction, A Hedonist in the Cellar. The Last Bachelor is his second collection of stories. He lives in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408800713 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408800713 |
| Title | The Last Bachelor |
| Author | Jay Mcinerney |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2010-01-04 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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