The Last of the Savages (First Edition)

McInerney, Jay

ISBN 10: 0679428453 / ISBN 13: 9780679428459

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996

First printing. A near fine book in a near fine dust jacket. A clean tight copy, with some slight wear to head and foot of spine. Dust jacket is clean and bright with price ($24) intact on front flap, with some slight rubbing. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free. Seller Inventory # Fiction-Stacks-Rear-2020-15

Synopsis:

When Will Savage and Patrick Keane meet, in 1965, at an elite New England prep school, one is an eager convert to the Establishment and the other its scion and sworn enemy. Desperate to shed his blue-collar lineaments, Patrick inevitably is entranced by Will's wealthy, deeply and eccentrically Southern family; he soon becomes both a student of its origins in antebellum Mississippi and an awkward participant in its legacy. While Will throws himself headlong into the spirit of the age - achieving his apotheosis as a notorious music mogul - Patrick hews to the course prescribed by his adopted class, through Yale (a Savage tradition) and Harvard Law.
But as they pursue their wildly distinct ambitions, the world remakes itself around them - Aquarius collapsing in paroxysms of assassination and rage - and their trust turns tentative and conflicted even as the allure of their prospects darkens. Will's relentless provocations culminate in his sudden marriage to a black woman, whereas for a long time Patrick refuses to risk a private life beyond his role as mediator and confidante.
Still, neither man proves capable of facing his ordeals alone. And only decades later, with each ensconced in some version of the future he once dreamed of, is the nature and meaning of this friendship truly understood - the procession of favor and compromise, differences verging on antagonism and similarities no less surprising, yet more enduring.

From the Inside Flap: e success of Brightness Falls--"his most ambitious novel" (The Boston Globe)--Jay McInerney now gives readers a sweeping story of a friendship as complex as it is abiding. Interweaving deeply personal dilemmas and the politics of race, sex, family, and society, The Last of the Savages moves from New England to the deep South and beyond, from the fevers of youth to the uneasy truths of middle age.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Last of the Savages (First Edition)
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition