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Jay McInerney

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John Barrett McInerney Jr. is an American writer. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, and The Last of the Savages. He edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices, wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City, and co-wrote the screenplay for the television film Gia, which starred Angelina Jolie. He is the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine, and his essays on wine have been collected in Bacchus & Me (2000) and A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006). His most recent novel is titled The Good Life, published in 2006.

Average rating: 3.73 · 59,695 ratings · 4,399 reviews · 63 distinct worksSimilar authors
Bright Lights, Big City

3.81 avg rating — 37,369 ratings — published 1984 — 85 editions
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Story of My Life

3.66 avg rating — 3,968 ratings — published 1988 — 51 editions
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Brightness Falls

3.79 avg rating — 3,752 ratings — published 1992 — 61 editions
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The Good Life

3.49 avg rating — 3,426 ratings3 editions
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Bright, Precious Days

3.64 avg rating — 2,551 ratings — published 2016 — 29 editions
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The Last of the Savages

3.73 avg rating — 1,730 ratings — published 1996 — 31 editions
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Model Behaviour

3.27 avg rating — 1,511 ratings — published 1998 — 29 editions
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Ransom

3.31 avg rating — 1,235 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions
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How it Ended

3.49 avg rating — 978 ratings — published 2000 — 15 editions
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A Hedonist in the Cellar: A...

3.62 avg rating — 585 ratings — published 2005 — 19 editions
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The Bright Lights, Big City author's love affair with New York continues in Bright, Precious Days, his third book about the glamorous Calloways.
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Quotes by Jay McInerney  (?)
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“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

“Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.”
Jay McInerney

“Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed”
Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

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