This collection of stories examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting and the dark underbelly of the American dream. The characters in these stories struggle together in a shifting world where old certainties dissolve and nobody can be sure of where they stand.
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The author of seven novels and two collections of essays on wine, Jay McInerney is a regular contributor to New York, The New York Times Book Review, The Independent and Corriere della Sera. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, and Granta. In 2006, Time cited his 1984 debut, Bright Lights, Big City, as one of nine generation-defining novels of the twentieth century. He was the recipient of the 2006 James Beard Foundation s M.F.K. Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing and his novel The Good Life received the Prix Litteraire at the Deauville Film Festival in 2007. He lives in Manhattan and Bridgehampton, New York."
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