Jay McInerney
The author of seven novels and two collections of essays on wine, Jay McInerney is a regular contributor to New York, The New York Times Book Review, The Independent and Corriere della Sera. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, and Granta. In 2006, Time cited his 1984 debut, Bright Lights, Big City, as one of nine generation-defining novels of the twentieth century. He was the recipient of the 2006 James Beard Foundation’s M.F.K. Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing and his novel The Good Life received the Prix Littéraire at the Deauville Film Festival in 2007. He...
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Hardcover | 240 pages | The Monacelli Press | Architecture - Interior Design
978-1-58093-280-6 (1-58093-280-0)
October 12, 2010 | $60.00
Hardcover | 240 pages | The Monacelli Press | Architecture - Interior Design
978-1-58093-280-6 (1-58093-280-0)
October 12, 2010 | $60.00
How It Ended
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-38795-0 (0-307-38795-X)
April 6, 2010 | $18.95
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.
Written by Jay McInerney
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-38795-0 (0-307-38795-X)
April 6, 2010 | $18.95
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.
Bright Lights, Big City
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction
978-0-307-57816-7 (0-307-57816-X)
August 25, 2009 | $17.99
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...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction
978-0-307-57816-7 (0-307-57816-X)
August 25, 2009 | $17.99
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...
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A Hedonist in the Cellar
eBook | 272 pages | Vintage | Cooking - Wine & Spirits
978-0-307-48587-8 (0-307-48587-0)
July 16, 2009 | $18.95
In A Hedonist in the Cellar, Jay McInerney gathers more than five years’ worth of essays and continues his exploration of what’s new, what’s enduring, and what’s surprising–giving his palate a complete workout and the reader an indispensable, idiosyncratic guide to a world of almost infinite variety. Filled with delights oenophiles everywhere...
Written by Jay McInerney
eBook | 272 pages | Vintage | Cooking - Wine & Spirits
978-0-307-48587-8 (0-307-48587-0)
July 16, 2009 | $18.95
In A Hedonist in the Cellar, Jay McInerney gathers more than five years’ worth of essays and continues his exploration of what’s new, what’s enduring, and what’s surprising–giving his palate a complete workout and the reader an indispensable, idiosyncratic guide to a world of almost infinite variety. Filled with delights oenophiles everywhere...
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How It Ended
Hardcover | 352 pages | Knopf | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-26805-1 (0-307-26805-5)
April 7, 2009 | $30.00
From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation and whose seventh and most recent, The Good Life, was an acclaimed national best seller, a collection of stories new and old that trace the arc of his career over nearly three decades. In fact, the short story...
Written by Jay McInerney
Hardcover | 352 pages | Knopf | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-26805-1 (0-307-26805-5)
April 7, 2009 | $30.00
From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation and whose seventh and most recent, The Good Life, was an acclaimed national best seller, a collection of stories new and old that trace the arc of his career over nearly three decades. In fact, the short story...
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
How It Ended
eBook | 352 pages | Knopf | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-27152-5 (0-307-27152-8)
April 7, 2009 | $30.00
From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation and whose seventh and most recent, The Good Life, was an acclaimed national best seller, a collection of stories new and old that trace the arc of his career over nearly three decades. In fact, the short story...
Written by Jay McInerney
eBook | 352 pages | Knopf | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-27152-5 (0-307-27152-8)
April 7, 2009 | $30.00
From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation and whose seventh and most recent, The Good Life, was an acclaimed national best seller, a collection of stories new and old that trace the arc of his career over nearly three decades. In fact, the short story...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
A Hedonist in the Cellar
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage | Cooking - Wine & Spirits
978-1-4000-9637-4 (1-4000-9637-5)
November 6, 2007 | $18.95
In A Hedonist in the Cellar, Jay McInerney gathers more than five years’ worth of essays and continues his exploration of what’s new, what’s enduring, and what’s surprising–giving his palate a complete workout and the reader an indispensable, idiosyncratic guide to a world of almost infinite variety. Filled with delights oenophiles everywhere...
Written by Jay McInerney
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage | Cooking - Wine & Spirits
978-1-4000-9637-4 (1-4000-9637-5)
November 6, 2007 | $18.95
In A Hedonist in the Cellar, Jay McInerney gathers more than five years’ worth of essays and continues his exploration of what’s new, what’s enduring, and what’s surprising–giving his palate a complete workout and the reader an indispensable, idiosyncratic guide to a world of almost infinite variety. Filled with delights oenophiles everywhere...
The Good Life
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-375-72545-6 (0-375-72545-8)
April 24, 2007 | $19.95
In The Good Life, Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.
Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing less than...
Written by Jay McInerney
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-375-72545-6 (0-375-72545-8)
April 24, 2007 | $19.95
In The Good Life, Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.
Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing less than...
A Hedonist in the Cellar
Hardcover | 272 pages | Knopf | Cooking - Wine & Spirits
978-1-4000-4482-5 (1-4000-4482-0)
October 24, 2006 | $27.95
In the two decades since Bright Lights, Big City reinvigorated contemporary fiction, Jay McInerney can claim a great many accomplishments, including the mantle that Salon has given him: “the best wine writer in America.” Of his previous collection, Bacchus and Me, Robert M. Parker, Jr., concluded: “Brilliant, witty, comical, and often shamelessly...
Written by Jay McInerney
Hardcover | 272 pages | Knopf | Cooking - Wine & Spirits
978-1-4000-4482-5 (1-4000-4482-0)
October 24, 2006 | $27.95
In the two decades since Bright Lights, Big City reinvigorated contemporary fiction, Jay McInerney can claim a great many accomplishments, including the mantle that Salon has given him: “the best wine writer in America.” Of his previous collection, Bacchus and Me, Robert M. Parker, Jr., concluded: “Brilliant, witty, comical, and often shamelessly...
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eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Good Life
Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-2531-5 (0-7393-2531-0)
January 31, 2006 | $21.00
Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.
Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in...
Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-2531-5 (0-7393-2531-0)
January 31, 2006 | $21.00
Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.
Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in...
The Good Life
eBook | pages | Knopf | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-26469-5 (0-307-26469-6)
January 31, 2006 | $18.95
Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.
Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in...
Written by Jay McInerney
eBook | pages | Knopf | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-26469-5 (0-307-26469-6)
January 31, 2006 | $18.95
Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.
Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in...
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
The Good Life
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction
978-1-4159-3164-6 (1-4159-3164-X)
January 31, 2006 | $25.00
Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.
Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction
978-1-4159-3164-6 (1-4159-3164-X)
January 31, 2006 | $25.00
Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.
Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in...
Bacchus and Me
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage | Cooking - Wine & Spirits
978-0-375-71362-0 (0-375-71362-X)
March 12, 2002 | $16.95
Jay McInerney on wine? Yes, Jay McInerney on wine! The best-selling novelist has turned his command of language and flair for metaphor on the world of wine, providing this sublime collection of untraditional musings on wine and wine culture that is as fit for someone looking for “a nice Chardonnay” as...
Written by Jay McInerney
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage | Cooking - Wine & Spirits
978-0-375-71362-0 (0-375-71362-X)
March 12, 2002 | $16.95
Jay McInerney on wine? Yes, Jay McInerney on wine! The best-selling novelist has turned his command of language and flair for metaphor on the world of wine, providing this sublime collection of untraditional musings on wine and wine culture that is as fit for someone looking for “a nice Chardonnay” as...
Model Behavior
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-679-74953-0 (0-679-74953-5)
March 14, 2000 | $18.00
"A Great Gatsby for the end of the century." -- The Baltimore Sun
Jay McInerney's first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, helped bring about a revolution in contemporary fiction in trade paperback. But more importantly, its publication brought us a major writer of great literary talent and incisive perception.
In his latest...
Written by Jay McInerney
Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-679-74953-0 (0-679-74953-5)
March 14, 2000 | $18.00
"A Great Gatsby for the end of the century." -- The Baltimore Sun
Jay McInerney's first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, helped bring about a revolution in contemporary fiction in trade paperback. But more importantly, its publication brought us a major writer of great literary talent and incisive perception.
In his latest...
The Last of the Savages
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-679-74952-3 (0-679-74952-7)
April 29, 1997 | $18.95
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...
Written by Jay McInerney
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage | Fiction
978-0-679-74952-3 (0-679-74952-7)
April 29, 1997 | $18.95
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...
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