Jay McInerney Livres

A peine trente ans et déjà mariés : Russell, éditeur, et Corrine, courtière en Bourse, n'ont pas de temps à perdre. Dans le New York des années quatre-vingt, seule compte la réussite. Et ils ont réussi un sans-faute. Séduisants, ambitieux, pas encore riches mais bien décidés à le devenir, ils vivent à cent à l'heure. Soudain, sans raison, tout se met à déraper. [ source : couverture]

" Pourquoi attendre ? ", telle est la devise d'Alison Poole. A vingt ans, cette fille à papa a pour meilleure amie sa carte de crédit. Elle plaque ses études et devient comédienne ; c'en est trop pour son père. Il lui coupe les vivres. Alison se perd dans la nuit new-yorkaise : sex, drugs, rock'n'roll... et l'amour soudain.

Pour Russell et Corrine Calloway, la vie est belle : de lancements de livres en vernissages ou sorties dans la haute société new-yorkaise. Ils ont des métiers qu'ils adorent, une vie de famille parfaite, habitent à TriBeCa et passent leurs vacances dans les Hamptons. Et pourtant… Tandis que Russell s’épuise à faire vivre sa maison d'édition, Corrine retrouve Luke, son ancien amant.

Ce livre de Jay McInerney rassemble soixante-six chroniques parues dans House and Garden et le Wall Street Journal, où il partage ses connaissances sur les vins et les personnes qui les produisent à travers le monde. Le lecteur voyage des châteaux légendaires de la culture vinicole aux régions viticoles d'Australie, de Nouvelle-Zélande, des collines de Santa Rita et Paso Robles, ainsi qu'en Argentine et au Chili. On y croise des passionnés du vin, vignerons, sommeliers et experts, qui incarnent l'énergie et la passion de ce domaine. Les récits de McInerney, à la fois exploratoires et luxueux, traitent de vins rares et chers, tout en s'intéressant à des crus moins connus ou sous-évalués. Ses réflexions sont enrichies d'anecdotes amusantes et de comparaisons brillantes. Il aborde des questions telles que la différence entre Lafite et Mouton, la lecture des étiquettes de vin allemand, les champagnes accessibles, ou encore l'évolution de la perception du "vin californien". Ce recueil instructif et réjouissant souligne que le goût du vin est une affaire hautement sentimentale, offrant ainsi une perspective subjective sur cet univers fascinant.

Dans les nuits new-yorkaises des années 80, ils ont sniffé, baisé, multiplié à l'infini les fiestas déjantées. Et aujourd'hui ? Ils ont quarante ans, sont mariés. Ils ont abandonné New York, poudre blanche et orgies. Vieux adolescents aux regards figés d'ennui, ils contemplent le désenchantement et les fêlures de leurs vies.

Deux enfants, des amis célèbres, une bonne situation, un loft à Manhattan : Corrine et Russel ont tout pour être heureux. Ce parfait exemple du rêve américain est soudain brisé par l’onde de choc de l’après 11-Septembre 2001. Croyances et espoirs, convictions et sentiments, le fric, le toc et le chic, tout est remis en cause et désormais, tout peut arriver.

Prepare to meet the most seductively female and shockingly fatal femme fatales, brought to you by seventeen of today’s finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short, sizzling masterpieces filled with thrilling tales that showcase how sexy and fierce the 'gentler sex' can be. In 'Third Party', a party girl takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night, while Nelson DeMille's 'Rendezvous' plunges you into a Vietnam jungle where the deadliest scourge is a woman. Elmore Leonard introduces a Depression-era teenage gun moll in 'Louly and Pretty Boy', who loves Pretty Boy Floyd more than robbing filling stations. Lorenzo Carcaterra's 'A Thousand Miles from Nowhere' features a smart blonde seeking slow-simmered vengeance, and Michael Connelly's 'Cielo Azul' reveals how a nameless woman found dead in Los Angeles can be the most lethal prey. Other riveting tales include a scorned lover claiming an old fling's heart, a mysterious woman offering a tempting suicide pact, and a she-demon rising from the grave. These and many other bad girls cast their criminal spells through the powerful voices of Joyce Carol Oates, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffrey Deaver, and more, in stories as irresistible as the anti-heroines that blaze through their pages.

The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.

From the bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls comes a chronicle of a generation, as enacted by two men who represent all the passions and extremes of the class of 1969. Patrick Keane and Will Savage meet at prep school at the beginning of the explosive '60s. Over the next 30 years, they remain friends even as they pursue radically divergent destinies--and harbor secrets that defy rebellion and conformity. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it. More than seventy-five years after its first publication, Manhattan Transfer still stands as "a novel of the very first importance" (Sinclair Lewis). It is a masterpiece of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream.

In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. Alison Poole, twenty going on 40,000, 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 hilarious yet oddly touching portrait of a postmodern Holly Golightly coming to terms with a world in which everything is permitted and nothing really matters.

Gabriel Tucker is a globe-trotting, trust fund–endowed twenty-nine-year-old who suddenly finds himself penniless and alone in the world, except for an old Miami Beach apartment building named the Venus De Milo Arms, the last thing of value left to him by his now-vanished family. Lacking skills or resources, he heads to Miami Beach to reconstruct his life, finding himself neighbors with an unlikely mix of tenants: an elderly Holocaust survivor, a lip-synching drag queen, a cynical two-bit gossip columnist, and a rebellious young performance artist who will eventually capture his heart. Within days, Gabriel is thrust into the outrageous world of South Beach, Miami of the nineties: temptations, quick fortunes, mountains of drugs, notorious murders, nonstop sex, and beautiful women (and men) for sale (or rent) are the order of the day. He is a ringside witness to the excesses and intrigues of Italian fashion empires, Cuban refugee supermodels, rapacious German developers, old-fashioned crooked politicians, and a cast of characters that would make Caligula blush. It is in South Beach that Gabriel will eventually discover the long-buried mysteries of his family and find a soul he never imagined he had and a love he never dreamed he deserved.

This is an anthology of fiction, by those who began publishing in the 1990s. The authors include Terry McMillan, Mark Leyner, Jeffrey Eugenides, Paul Watkins, William Vollman, Darcey Steinke and Dorothy Alison.

Here is Jay McInerney's acclaimed first novel, published to coincide with the release of the major motion picture and movie tie-in edition of Bright Lights, Big City. "Continually witty and tape-recorder accurate".

Then there's the sister with whom he shared a flamboyantly addled childhood, and who now matches her brilliance for theoretical abstraction with a compassion for world suffering so acute that her own well-being is imperiled.

"What came to mind when looking at Christophe von Hohenberg's book was... loved the scrapbook format and thought it was by far the best way to show photographs and the life of the photographer." Etheleen Staley - Staley-Wise Gallery The 1970s and 80s in New York were a dazzling age. Since the 1920s in Paris, the world had not seen such a cultural movement. Von Hohenberg lived and photographed this period, when the giants of fashion, art and society rubbed elbows with drag queens and addicts in clubs like the legendary Studio 54. This historic "time capsule" contains portraits of personalities like Allen Ginsberg, Julian Schnabel and Cornelia Guest, Robert F. Kennedy Junior and Britney Spears, to name just a few. Some are no longer with us, and some reign as icons of the century. With texts and handwritten letters from acclaimed American writers like Jay McInerney, Candace Bushnell, Anthony Haden-Guest, Michael Gross, and Bob Colacello

Soubor sedmi půvabných, krátkých próz, které čtenáře zaujmou především kromobyčejnou pestrostí a neuvěřitelnou lehkostí, s jakou byly napsány. A to nezávisle na šíři volených prostředí, ve kterých se jednotlivé minipříběhy odehrávají, psychiatrickou léčebnou počínaje a Kubou konče.

Der Antiheld des Romans, der junge Schriftsteller, durchlebt ohne Ideale die Wirren menschlicher Beziehungen in der Atmosphäre New Yorks der 90er Jahre. Der zweiunddreißigjährige Connor McKnight schreibt Artikel über berühmte Persönlichkeiten für eine Boulevardzeitschrift, erlebt die Trennung von der Model Philomena, kümmert sich um seine Schwester Brooke, eine anorektische Intellektuelle, versucht, den Kontakt zu seinen skurrilen Eltern aufrechtzuerhalten, und hat Probleme mit seinem Freund Jeremy... einfach leben. Leere literarische Partys, Treffen in Bars, Kopfschmerzen, Alkohol, Frustration, Träume und Hoffnungen – all das schildert Connor mit nostalgisch-amüsiertem Blick und einer Ironie, die sich selbst trifft. Das Buch besticht durch seine ungewöhnliche formale Struktur, die wie am Computer geschrieben wirkt, mit kurzen Kapiteln, in denen die Ich-Form mit Erzählungen in der zweiten und dritten Person sowie E-Mails wechselt. Der Autor ist ein großartiger Stilist und nutzt in seinem Roman, wie auch in seinen vorherigen Werken, geschickt eigene Lebenserfahrungen, um ein wenig optimistisches, aber glaubwürdiges Bild des zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Intellektuellen, eines Bewohners New Yorks, zu zeichnen.