Background
McInerney, Jay was born on January 13, 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of John Barrett and Marilyn Jean (Murphy) McInerney.
(With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, ...)
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodwill, controlled substances, and wit to sustain him in this anti-quest, he runs until he reaches his reckoning point, where he is forced to acknowledge loss and, possibly, to rediscover his better instincts. This remarkable novel of youth and New York remains one of the most beloved, imitated, and iconic novels in America.
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(he bestselling Brightness Falls--now in trade paper from ...)
he bestselling Brightness Falls--now in trade paper from the author of Bright Lights, Big City. In the story of Russell and Corrine Calloway, set against the world of New York publishing, McInerney provides a stunningly accomplished portrayal of people contending with early success, then getting lost in the middle of their lives.
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Originally published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1988, and now reissued by Grove Press, The Story of My Life by Jay McInerney is a hilarious, sobering portrait of 1980s New York City featuring twenty-something actress Alison Poole and her coterie of club-hopping, coke-addicted friends. In this breathlessly paced novel, McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. Alison Poole is a budding actress already fatally well versed in hopping the clubs, shopping Chanel, falling in and out of lust, and abusing other people’s credit cards. As Alison races toward emotional breakdown, McInerney gives us a funny yet oddly touching portrait of a postmodern Holly Golightly coming to terms with a world in which everything is permitted and nothing really matters.
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(From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big Cit...)
From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation, a collection of twenty-six stories, new and old, that trace the arc of his career for nearly three decades.
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Bright Lights, Big City is an American novel by Jay McInerney, published by Vintage Books on August 12, 1984. It is written about a character's time spent caught up in, and notably escaping from, the mid-1980s New York City fast lane. It is one of the few well-known English-language novels written in the second person, and its main character is unnamed.
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"the best kept secret in the world of wine is about to be revealed-the debut of novelist Jay McInerney's first wine book. Bacchus and Me provides some of the finest writing on the subject of wine, offering McInnerney's brilliant, witty, comical and often shamelessly candid and provocative thoughts about the world of wine and many of the people who produce it."- Robert M. Parker Jr. (editor and publisher of the Wine Advocate, author of Parker's Wine Buyers Guide
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(Bright Lights, Big City a fost publicat in 1984, pentru a...)
Bright Lights, Big City a fost publicat in 1984, pentru a fi mai tarziu ecranizat in filmul cu acelasi nume, regizat de James Bridges. Romanul surprinde segmente din viata unui new yorkez, prins in ritmul haotic al orasului, un personaj-tipic al metropolei americane din anii '80, a carui existenta pare sa se rateze pe toate planurile, pornind de la cel personal si culminand cu cel profesional si social. Titlul cartii corespunde unui celebru blues din anii '50, semnat de binecunoscutul muzician de R&B, Jimmy Reed. Mai tarziu, melodia a fost preluata de formatii precum The Rolling Stones si The Animals. Primele versuri ale cantecului formeaza un lait motiv al romanului semnat de McInerney: Bright lights, big city... gone to my baby's head.... I tried to tell the woman but she... don't believe a word I said. Sotia naratorului, Amanda, este atrasa de luminile orbitoare ale New York-ului. Se lanseaza intr-o cariera de fotomodel pe care nici ea, nici naratorul-personaj nu o iau in serios, pentru ca, in cele din urma, sa fie sedusa de acea lume sclipitoare si, in acelasi timp, anosta. Romanul este scris la persoana a doua - de altfel, este unul dintre putinele creatii literare americane care sa fie narate intr-o astfel de nota - fapt ce permite autorului sa construiasca un personaj fara nume, a carui identitate poate fi preluata de oricine - povestea lui se inscrie in limitele unui cotidian al suprafetelor, lipsit de esenta, artificial, in care oamenii tind sa devina simple elemente de decor: Stai in fata la Saks Fifth Avenue si te holbezi la manechin. Intr-o zi, saptamana trecuta, cand ai inceput sa tipi la el, a venit un politist si ti-a spus sa pleci. Exact asa arata ea la sfarsit, privirea goala, buzele stranse, o expresie reticenta. De ce a devenit manechin? In ciuda dramei care se contureaza, romanul ofera o lectura spumoasa, plina de umor. Personajul-narator este un scriitor cu potential, care in timpul zilei lucreaza pe post de corector la o revista literara, und
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(The story's narrator is a writer who works as a fact chec...)
The story's narrator is a writer who works as a fact checker for a high-brow magazine-likely based on Harpers or The New Yorker, where McInerney himself once worked as a fact checker-for which he had once hoped to write. By night, he is a cocaine-using party-goer seeking to lose himself in the hedonism of the 1980s yuppie party scene, often going to a nightclub called Heartbreak.2 His wife, Amanda, recently left him, and he copes with this by pretending nothing happened and telling no one that she's gone. The two had met in Oklahoma; the narrator moves with her to New York City, where she begins a modeling career that quickly takes off. After flying out to Paris for Fashion Week, she calls the narrator to inform him that she is leaving him for another man and to pursue her career. Initially hopeful that she will return someday, the narrator eventually resorts to searching for her at a fashion event, publicly humiliating himself while failing to garner more attention from her than a brief look. He obsesses over every item she owned in his apartment, every modeling photo and every club she visited, even repeatedly visiting a mannequin based on her. His partying and his personal troubles begin to affect his work. He eventually comes to realize Amanda's superficiality, becoming both disillusioned with her and the materialistic culture of New York in general.
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(Story of My Life For twenty-year-old Alison, Manhattan is...)
Story of My Life For twenty-year-old Alison, Manhattan is a playground. She attends Lee Strasberg's Acting School (when she can get the fees together) and is smart, sarcastic and sussed. Her life is a carnival of gossip and midnight sessions of Truth or Dare, and her cocaine-bashing friends and flirting flatmates all crave satiation. She's fallen deeply in lust with Dean, although she can't do anything about it until that nasty present Skip Pendleton left her with clears up. Story of her life, right? But in a world of no consequences or cares, Alison seems to be heading for a meltdown. Brightness Falls Their moment was of the brief, shining sort when everything seemed possible: the gold rush of the 1980s, when the best and the brightest vied with the worst and most craven for riches, fame and the love of beautiful people. With all the force and cunning enterprise of Manhattan itself, Brightness Falls captures lives-in-the-making: men and women confronting their sudden middle-age with wit and low behaviour, or fear and confusion, and occasionally even a little honesty and decency. None of them, ever, would be the same again...
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McInerney, Jay was born on January 13, 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of John Barrett and Marilyn Jean (Murphy) McInerney.
Bachelor in Philosophy, Williams College, 1976. Postgraduate, Syracuse University.
Reporter, Hunterdon County Democrat, Flemington, New Jersey, 1977; textbook editor, Time Life Publications, Osaka, Japan, 1978-1979; fact checker, New Yorker, New York City, 1980; reader, Random House Publications, New York City, 1980-1981; instructor English, Syracuse University, 1983; writer, since 1983.
( Originally published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1988,...)
(The story's narrator is a writer who works as a fact chec...)
(From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big Cit...)
(With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, ...)
(Bright Lights, Big City a fost publicat in 1984, pentru a...)
("the best kept secret in the world of wine is about to be...)
(Bright Lights, Big City is an American novel by Jay McIne...)
(he bestselling Brightness Falls--now in trade paper from ...)
(Story of My Life For twenty-year-old Alison, Manhattan is...)
Member Authors Guild, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Writers Guild.
Married Linda Rositer, 1979 (divorced 1979). Married Merry Reymond, June 2, 1984 (divorced 1991). Married Helen Bransford, December 27, 1991 (divorced 2000).
Married Anne Hearst, November 21, 2006.