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Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.
Knopf
February 2006
368 pages
ISBN: 0375411402
Hardcover
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Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine
and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are
thoroughly wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is
nothing less than miraculous, even as they contend with the
faded promise of a marriage tinged with suspicion and
deceit. Meanwhile, several miles uptown and perched near the
top of the Upper East Side�s social register, Luke McGavock
has postponed his accumulation of wealth in an attempt to
recover the sense of purpose now lacking in a life that
often gives him pause�especially with regard to his teenage
daughter, whose wanton extravagance bears a horrifying
resemblance to her mother�s. But on a September morning,
brightness falls horribly from the sky, and people worlds
apart suddenly find themselves working side by side at the
devastated site, feeling lost anywhere else, yet battered
still by memory and regret, by fresh disappointment and
unimaginable shock. What happens, or should happen, when
life stops us in our tracks, or our own choices do? What if
both secrets and secret needs, long guarded steadfastly, are
finally revealed? What is the good life?
Posed with astonishing understanding and
compassion, these questions power a novel rich with
characters and events, both comic and harrowing, revelatory
about not only New York after the attacks but also the toll
taken on those lucky enough to have survived them. Wise,
surprising, and, ultimately, heart-stoppingly redemptive,
The Good Life captures lives that allow us to
see�through personal, social, and moral complexity�more
clearly into the heart of things.
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