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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.

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Bright Lights, Big City
3.78 avg rating — 29,073 ratings — published 1984 — 56 editions
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Bright, Precious Days
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The Last of the Savages
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How it Ended
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“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
― Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages
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“Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.”
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“Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed”
― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
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