Brightness Falls, Jay McInerney
Brightness Falls, Jay McInerney
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Brightness Falls

Author: Jay McInerney

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 15 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/12/2016


Synopsis

Combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us a novel that is stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting. 

As he maps the fault lines spreading through the once-impenetrable marriage of Russell and Corrine Calloway and chronicles Russell's wildly ambitious scheme to seize control of the publishing house at which he works, Jay McInerney creates an elegy for New York in the 1980s. From the literary chimeras and corporate raiders to those dispossessed by the pandemonium of money and power, Brightness Falls captures a rash era at its moment of reckoning and gives reality back to a time that now seems decidedly unreal.

About The Author

Jay McInerney is the author of seven previous novels, a collection of short stories and three collections of essays on wine. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David

Brightness Falls is a great American novel, which owes a great deal to F. Scott Fitzgerald and his Gatsby. At times, it seems as if McInerney wants to re-tell the Gatsby tale on Wall Street during the Crash of '87. McInerney's Nick Carraway is, after all, Crash Galloway. However, the meaning of this......more

Goodreads review by Cmamer

Have you ever attended a long cocktail party at an elegant hotel with crowds of well dressed people chattering while a piano player provides background music and after the ball is over find yourself at home with the vague impression that you have not actually been anywhere? If so, you have a good id......more

Goodreads review by christa

this reminded me of how "the beautiful and damned" is technically better than "the great gatsby" but not as well-known. this is better than "bright lights, big city."......more

Goodreads review by Angus

There were certainly slow points through this book (I actually reshelved it for many months). But considering it’s about a failing marriage in the late 80s it has many surprisingly prescient themes. Betrayal, divorce, drugs, death, economic collapse, careers, ennui, infidelity, friendship, white pri......more

Goodreads review by Joan

El maravilloso y complejo mundo de las relaciones sentimentales. El retrato de una época y un lugar perfectamente ambientado y descrito: el Nueva York de los ochenta, el de la vanidad, las fiestas sin control, las drogas, el de los brokers más ávidos... El libro muestra la forma de vivir de entonces......more