Jay McInerney

«El Scott Fitzgerald de nuestro tiempo.» Vanity Fair «Uno de los escritores con más talento de su generación. Todo lo que escribe resulta una lectura fascinante.» Observer Tras décadas juntos, Russe

Traducido por: Patricia Antón Tras superar no pocas dificultades, el matrimonio Calloway sigue unido. Russell continúa trabajando como editor, aunque en un puesto menos importante, y Corrine ha dej

"Vite di coppia fatte di contraddizioni: tradimenti e condivisione, passioni adultere e sicurezze tutte casalinghe. Jay Mclnerney punta la sua lente sulla vita quotidiana di coppie dall''immagine invidiabile: professionisti, intellettuali, artisti rampanti e ricchi disinibiti come in ""Sex and the City"", superficiali come in ""Glamorama"", narcisisti come in una commedia di Woody Allen. E mentre le giornate scorrono - tra amplessi frettolosi, gravidanze interrotte ma in fondo desiderate, litigi familiari che non si fermano neanche di fronte a un lutto - la commedia umana va avanti, irresistibile e grottesca, malinconica e insidiosa, comunque sempre struggente. "

Jay McInerney, internationally celebrated author of Bright Lights, Big City, turns his hand here to his lifelong love affair with wine. Peals of wisdom are offered on the subjects of the best wine for romantics, the parallels between Californian wines and floundering Hollywood stars, the choice of wine for the author's own debauched forty-eighth birthday party, the 'high-testosterone grape' that is Colin Farrell, absinthe, 'the wild green fairy', and what wine is best drunk with chocolate. At the same time McInerney is a genuine connoisseur, taking the reader on a tour through the wine regions of the world and imparting tried and tested advice on grapes and vintages, bouquets, noses and finishes.

In true McInerney style, this new collection of stories examines post 9/11 America in all its dark and morally complex glory. His characters include a young woman holed up in a remote cabin while her (married) boyfriend campaigns for the highest of all offices, a couple whose sexual experiments cross every line imaginable, a young socialite called home to nurse her mother and an older one scheming for her next husband. From the streets of downtown New York during the 2003 anti-war march and the lavish hotel rooms of the wealthy social elite, to a husband and wife who share a marital bed with a pot-bellied pig, the people in these stories search for meaning while struggling against each other, colliding as the old world around them fractures and dissolves into a modern era full of new uncertainties, where ghosts of loss hang in the air. McInerney''s writing has crackling humour and a feverish, clear-sighted brilliance that perfectly underpins the lives of people living in modern America. These stories are deftly constructed, subtle, insightful and heartbreaking. Steeped in history but yet alive in the present - this new collection is a companion to the sweet madness of life

McInerney''s novel of 9/11 and its aftershocks offers acute cultural observation before sinking into a sappy romance. The subject ensures that McInerney will generate more attention than he has since his debut (Bright Lights, Big City, 1984). Now that the novelist is a couple decades more mature, the urban hipsters he once chronicled have begun to suffer from marital malaise and mid-life crises , exacerbated by the terrorist attacks, which cause them to question the very essence of their existence. If life can never be the same again, what could it possibly become? Death serves as the ultimate aphrodisiac, sparking a Ground Zero soup-kitchen affair between Corrine Calloway and Luke McGavock, after their chance meeting lets both realize the emptiness of their marriages. The infertile mother of twins (through a silly subplot concerning the insemination of her slutty sister), Corrine is attempting to establish herself as a screenwriter after staying home to raise the kids, with her publisher husband Russell supporting the family. Where Corrine and Russell seemed to be sleepwalking through their marriage before the 9/11 wake-up call, Luke had already tried to make drastic changesquitting his lucrative Wall Street job to find inner purpose, much to the dismay of his unfaithful socialite wife and their precociously jaded teenage daughter. They much preferred him as a meal ticket than a pervasive presence in their lives. Though McInerney has a sharp eye for the values and foibles of the upscale tribes of Manhattan (as if reporting undercover, a spy on the circuit of book parties, charity bashes and pricey restaurants), the dialogue and interior monologues through which Corrine and Luke proceed with their affair would be embarrassing, overheated cliche even by bodice-ripping standards. The results read like a shotgun marriage between social anthropology and soap opera.The title suggests a number of questionsWhat constitutes the good life? Is it possible to sustain it in post-9/11 New York? Can it be bought? Or earned?that the author fails to resolve.

An astonishingly funny and poignant new collection of short stories from Jay McInerney - one of the pre-eminent writers of his generation.

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.

"Vite di coppia fatte di contraddizioni: tradimenti e condivisione, passioni adultere e sicurezze tutte casalinghe. Jay McInerney punta la sua lente sulla vita quotidiana di coppie dall''immagine invidiabile, coppie con un rapporto segnato a volte da grande passione, ma quasi sempre misterioso, ricco di silenzi e di segreti, piu che di confidenza e di abbandono reciproco. E mentre le giornate scorrono - tra amplessi frettolosi, gravidanze interrotte ma in fondo desiderate, litigi familiari che non si fermano neanche di fronte a un lutto -la commedia umana va avanti, irresistibile e grottesca, malinconica e insidiosa, comunque sempre struggente. "

"Corrine e Russel hanno due gemelli nati da una fecondazione artificiale. Luke e Sasha hanno una figlia ribelle, Ashley. Sono due famiglie newyorkesi ricche e colte, ma solo apparentemente felici, il cui precario equilibrio si rompe in seguito all''11 settembre. Luke e scampato alla tragedia per un banale ritardo; Corrine fa la volontaria nelle squadre di supporto alle forze dell''ordine che scavano tra le rovine. Sull''onda degli avvenimenti Luke e Corrine si innamorano, sognando di poter recuperare una giovinezza perduta e ricominciare una nuova vita sulle rovine di quella precedente. Ma quando Ashley, la figlia di Luke, finira in ospedale per un''overdose, l''entusiasmo si esaurira e tutto rientrera nella normalita. Forse. "

Worlds collide, relationships fragment and the dark underbelly of the American dream is exposed. A transsexual prostitute accidentally propositions his own father; a senator''s serial infidelities leave him in hot water; two young lovers spend Christmas together high on different drugs. McInerney''s characters struggle together in a shifting world where old certainties dissolve and nobody can be sure of where they stand. "How It Ended" is a powerful, funny and moving collection by one of the great storytellers of our time.

Hermosa, torpe, cansada del mundo a los veinte años, Alison se enfrenta como puede al torbellino de Manhattan, a la indulgencia de sus amigos y a la indiferencia paterna. Divertido y agudo retrato de la juventud neoyorkina, con La historia de mi vida arrancaba con innegable fuerza y convicción el realismo sucio estadounidense.