Introduces the characters from McInerney's novel, The Good Life.
Callowayská trilógia Séria
Táto séria sleduje vzostupy a pády ambicióznych jednotlivcov v prostredí divokého finančného sveta a literárneho vydavateľstva. Zachytáva životy odohrávajúce sa na pozadí zlatej horúčky v New Yorku osemdesiatych rokov, kde sa stretáva túžba po úspechu s morálnymi kompromismi. Príbehy skúmajú, ako naháňanie sa za bohatstvom a slávou ovplyvňuje medziľudské vzťahy a osobnú integritu. Čitatelia sa môžu tešiť na prenikavý pohľad do ľudskej povahy, kde sa statočnosť a zraniteľnosť snúbia s občasnou úprimnosťou.
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The Good Life
- 368 stránok
- 13 hodin čítania
Ten years on from Brightness Falls, Russell Calloway is still a literary editor; his wife Corrine has sacrificed her career to watch anxiously over their children. Across town Luke McGavock, a wealthy ex-investment banker, is taking a sabbatical from moneymaking, struggling to reconnect with his socially resplendent wife Sasha and their angst-ridden teenage daughter, Ashley. These two Manhattan families are teetering on the brink of change when 9/11 happens. Through the lens of catastrophe, The Good Life explores that territory between hope and despair, love and loss, regret and fulfilment. This is Jay McInerney doing what he does best, presenting us with life in New York City, in all its moral complexity.
This unforgettable New York story of glamour, sex, ambition, and heartbreak begins in the heady days before the financial crash. Russell and Corrine Calloway seem to be living the dream: a calendar filled with high-society parties; jobs they care about and enjoy; twin children, a boy and a girl whose birth was truly miraculous; a loft in TriBeCa and summers in the Hamptons. But beneath the glossy surfaces, things are simmering. Russell, editor-in-chief of a boutique publisher, has cultural clout but is on the edge financially, and feels compelled to pursue an audacious—and potentially ruinous—opportunity. Meanwhile, Corrine’s world is turned upside down when the man with whom she’d had an ill-fated affair in the wake of 9/11 suddenly reappears, and the Calloways find themselves tested more severely than they ever could have imagined. The third book in McInerney’s celebrated Calloway trilogy, Bright, Precious Days is an aching, extraordinary portrait of a marriage during a period of dizzying change.