McInerney has often been compared with F. Scott Fitzgerald, both for his unofficial title as chronicler of a highliving decade and for his personal good looks and lifestyle, and McInerney has sometimes encouraged that comparison, both through references to The Great Gatsby (1925) and through evocation of that novel's ending in this work. Other writers who have mined New York society for works of literary realism, including Edith Wharton, Thomas Wolfe, and John Cheever, might also be seen as literary forebears for McInerney, with Wolfe's Bonfire.....
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