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The good life

Hardcover • 2006 • English • 1. edition

The good life

By Jay McInerney

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About the book

The author revisits ten years on some of the characters that populated "Brightness Falls". Luke McGavock, in the enviable position of having made more money than he can spend, has chosen to take a sabbatical in which he might recover the sense of purpose suddenly lacking in his life. But his wife is more than up to the task of spending and very much a part of Upper East Side society, which affects their daughter in ways that he shudders to think about. Meanwhile, Russell and Corrine Galloway hav...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780747580904

Publisher

Bloomsbury

Published year

2006

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The good life

Format

Hardcover

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