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BRIGHT PRECIOUS DAYS PB

BRIGHT PRECIOUS DAYS PB

McInerney, Jay

Εκδότης Pan Books , ISBN 9781408876558


'Stylish observation ... Suspenseful and well told' Lionel Shriver, Financial Times



It is 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is running his own publishing company, and clinging to their downtown loft; Corrine manages a charity, and is desperate to move somewhere with more space for their twins. Although they try to forget each other's past indiscretions, when Jeff Pierce's posthumous novel gathers a new cult following, the memory of their friend begins to haunt the couple. Then, with devastating timing, Corrine's former lover makes an unexpected reappearance...

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'Stylish observation ... Suspenseful and well told' Lionel Shriver, Financial Times



It is 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is running his own publishing company, and clinging to their downtown loft; Corrine manages a charity, and is desperate to move somewhere with more space for their twins. Although they try to forget each other's past indiscretions, when Jeff Pierce's posthumous novel gathers a new cult following, the memory of their friend begins to haunt the couple. Then, with devastating timing, Corrine's former lover makes an unexpected reappearance...

Πληροφορίες προϊόντος

  • Συγγραφέας McInerney, Jay
  • Eκδότης Pan Books
  • ISBN 9781408876558
  • Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100063744
  • Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2017
  • Σελίδες 416
  • Διαστάσεις
  • Βάρος 250 gr

McInerney, Jay

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Ο Τζέι Μακ Ίνερνι γεννήθηκε το 1955 στο Χάρτφορντ του Κονέτικατ και έχει ζήσει στο Λονδίνο, στο Βανκούβερ της βρετανικής Κολομβίας, στη δυτική Μασαχουσέτη, στο Τόκιο και στη Νέα Υόρκη. Έχει αποφοιτήσει από το Κολέγιο Γουίλιαμς και έχει πάρει υποτροφίες από το Πανεπιστήμιο του Πρίνστον και το Σίρακιουζ. Έργα του έχουν δημοσιευτεί στα περιοδικά "The Village Voice", "The Chicago Tribune", "The Paris Review" και "Ploughshares". Το "Bright Lights, Big City" ("Φώτα ολόφωτα, πόλη μεγάλη") ήταν το πρώτο του μυθιστόρημα. Άλλα βιβλία του είναι: "Brightness Falls" (ελλ. έκδ. "Μανχάτταν"), "Ransom", "Story of My Life", "The Last of the Savages", "Model Behavior", "How it Ended" και "The Good Life" (ελλ. έκδ. "Η καλή ζωή"). ay McInerney is the critically acclaimed author of twelve books, the most recent being Bright, Precious Days (2016). Time magazine cited his first best-selling novel, Bright Lights, Big City (1984), as one of nine generation-defining novels of the twentieth century. McInerney has also written for New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, Corriere della Serra, The Times Literary Supplement, and The New York Review of Books. In 2006, he won the James Beard MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award for his food and wine work. Wendell Jamieson is an award-winning reporter and editor who has covered New York City since the late 1980s, working as an obituary writer, copy boy, police reporter, rewriteman, night editor, and web editor, among other jobs. He spent eighteen years at The New York Times, the last five of them as Metro editor. In 2007, he wrote Father Knows Less, or “Can I Cook My Sister?”, published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, in which he explored the sometimes bizarre questions of children.

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