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"You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details are fuzzy...
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Jay McInerney's works document the urban world of New York and provide a peek into the glitzy, sometimes overly consumerist existence about which average Americans know little. Although he is often ca...
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In the following review, Birkerts offers a favorable assessment of Brightness Falls.
"Whom the gods would destroy," Cyril Connolly once wrote, "they first call promising." ...
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Below, Eder offers a negative review of Brightness Falls.
Thomas Nashe's "A Litany in Time of Plague" is one of the most celebrated and haunting of Elizabethan poems, with its bon...
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In the following review, Olshan offers tempered praise for Brightness Falls.
Nearly everyone and everything in Jay McInerney's ambitious fourth novel, Brightness Falls, is leveraged. Companies ...
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In the following review, Toynton gives a negative evaluation of Brightness Falls.
"You will have to learn everything all over again." So goes the last line of Jay McInerney's firs...
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In the following essay, Faye examines the themes of "cultural disaffection," alienation, and expatriation in Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, and Story of My Life. According to Faye, &#x...
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In the following review, Edwards discusses Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, and Story of My Life, and finds fault with McInerney's "bad writing" and lack of social and historical ...
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In the following review, Dyer cites shortcomings in The Last of the Savages. According to Dyer, "We are left with the statement of great purpose rather than its achieved substance and form.�...
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In the following review, Coleman offers praise for The Last of the Savages, but dismisses McInerney's aspiration to match F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
It is foolhardy for a no...
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In the following review, Campbell offers tempered praise for McInerney's effort to address contemporary race relations in The Last of the Savages.
In 1962, at the height of the Civil Rights mov...
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In the following review, Loewinsohn offers unfavorable assessment of Ransom.
Jay McInerncy is a serious, gifted artist. His first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, is a brilliant and moving work—...
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In the following review, Schine offers qualified praise for Brightness Falls.
A trash novel tells you everything you already know about a way of life you will, in fact, never know. A serious novel tel...
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Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney
Critical Review by Sven Birkerts
