Jay McInerney Livres

A peine trente ans et déjà mariés : Russell, éditeur, et Corrine, courtière en Bourse, n'ont pas de temps à perdre. Dans le New York des années quatre-vingt, seule compte la réussite. Et ils ont réussi un sans-faute. Séduisants, ambitieux, pas encore riches mais bien décidés à le devenir, ils vivent à cent à l'heure. Soudain, sans raison, tout se met à déraper. [ source : couverture]

Pour Russell et Corrine Calloway, la vie est belle : de lancements de livres en vernissages ou sorties dans la haute société new-yorkaise. Ils ont des métiers qu'ils adorent, une vie de famille parfaite, habitent à TriBeCa et passent leurs vacances dans les Hamptons. Et pourtant… Tandis que Russell s’épuise à faire vivre sa maison d'édition, Corrine retrouve Luke, son ancien amant.

" Pourquoi attendre ? ", telle est la devise d'Alison Poole. A vingt ans, cette fille à papa a pour meilleure amie sa carte de crédit. Elle plaque ses études et devient comédienne ; c'en est trop pour son père. Il lui coupe les vivres. Alison se perd dans la nuit new-yorkaise : sex, drugs, rock'n'roll... et l'amour soudain.

Ce livre de Jay McInerney rassemble soixante-six chroniques parues dans House and Garden et le Wall Street Journal, où il partage ses connaissances sur les vins et les personnes qui les produisent à travers le monde. Le lecteur voyage des châteaux légendaires de la culture vinicole aux régions viticoles d'Australie, de Nouvelle-Zélande, des collines de Santa Rita et Paso Robles, ainsi qu'en Argentine et au Chili. On y croise des passionnés du vin, vignerons, sommeliers et experts, qui incarnent l'énergie et la passion de ce domaine. Les récits de McInerney, à la fois exploratoires et luxueux, traitent de vins rares et chers, tout en s'intéressant à des crus moins connus ou sous-évalués. Ses réflexions sont enrichies d'anecdotes amusantes et de comparaisons brillantes. Il aborde des questions telles que la différence entre Lafite et Mouton, la lecture des étiquettes de vin allemand, les champagnes accessibles, ou encore l'évolution de la perception du "vin californien". Ce recueil instructif et réjouissant souligne que le goût du vin est une affaire hautement sentimentale, offrant ainsi une perspective subjective sur cet univers fascinant.

Dans les nuits new-yorkaises des années 80, ils ont sniffé, baisé, multiplié à l'infini les fiestas déjantées. Et aujourd'hui ? Ils ont quarante ans, sont mariés. Ils ont abandonné New York, poudre blanche et orgies. Vieux adolescents aux regards figés d'ennui, ils contemplent le désenchantement et les fêlures de leurs vies.

Deux enfants, des amis célèbres, une bonne situation, un loft à Manhattan : Corrine et Russel ont tout pour être heureux. Ce parfait exemple du rêve américain est soudain brisé par l’onde de choc de l’après 11-Septembre 2001. Croyances et espoirs, convictions et sentiments, le fric, le toc et le chic, tout est remis en cause et désormais, tout peut arriver.

'I'm sick of all this pointless glamour,' his glamorous girlfriend said. 'I want a simple life.' If only Connor McNab had listened. Now Philomena is off to California, allegedly on a fashion shoot, but he doesn't know where she is staying and a sinking feeling tells him that she might never come back. Connor's friend Jeremy Green is no help: he is the 'famous short-story writer' (which they both agree is an oxymoron) with an imminent publication date and some people holding his dog to random for reasons too Machiavellian to blurb. Connor's sister Brook, genius mathematician and anorexic, is too busy anguishing over Rwanda and Bosnia. His editor at Ciao Bella is only concerned about the suddenly elusive celebrity of the month. Thank goodness for Pallas, a knock-out table dancer with a heart of gold.

'Probably the best book ever written about being young, about doing drugs and about music' Tony Parsons, Daily Express

From the bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls comes a chronicle of a generation, as enacted by two men who represent all the passions and extremes of the class of 1969. Patrick Keane and Will Savage meet at prep school at the beginning of the explosive '60s. Over the next 30 years, they remain friends even as they pursue radically divergent destinies--and harbor secrets that defy rebellion and conformity. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling to become a part of modernity before they are destroyed by it. More than seventy-five years after its first publication, Manhattan Transfer still stands as "a novel of the very first importance" (Sinclair Lewis). It is a masterpiece of modern fiction and a lasting tribute to the dual-edged nature of the American dream.

Gabriel Tucker is a globe-trotting, trust fund–endowed twenty-nine-year-old who suddenly finds himself penniless and alone in the world, except for an old Miami Beach apartment building named the Venus De Milo Arms, the last thing of value left to him by his now-vanished family. Lacking skills or resources, he heads to Miami Beach to reconstruct his life, finding himself neighbors with an unlikely mix of tenants: an elderly Holocaust survivor, a lip-synching drag queen, a cynical two-bit gossip columnist, and a rebellious young performance artist who will eventually capture his heart. Within days, Gabriel is thrust into the outrageous world of South Beach, Miami of the nineties: temptations, quick fortunes, mountains of drugs, notorious murders, nonstop sex, and beautiful women (and men) for sale (or rent) are the order of the day. He is a ringside witness to the excesses and intrigues of Italian fashion empires, Cuban refugee supermodels, rapacious German developers, old-fashioned crooked politicians, and a cast of characters that would make Caligula blush. It is in South Beach that Gabriel will eventually discover the long-buried mysteries of his family and find a soul he never imagined he had and a love he never dreamed he deserved.

This is an anthology of fiction, by those who began publishing in the 1990s. The authors include Terry McMillan, Mark Leyner, Jeffrey Eugenides, Paul Watkins, William Vollman, Darcey Steinke and Dorothy Alison.

Here is Jay McInerney's acclaimed first novel, published to coincide with the release of the major motion picture and movie tie-in edition of Bright Lights, Big City. "Continually witty and tape-recorder accurate".

Then there's the sister with whom he shared a flamboyantly addled childhood, and who now matches her brilliance for theoretical abstraction with a compassion for world suffering so acute that her own well-being is imperiled.

When successful barrister Alistair Langford is brutally attacked late one night by two mystery assailants, he is left with terrible injuries. But this was no random mugging - Alistair's life is full of secrets and lies, and as the truth emerges he realises this could tear his whole family apart.

Jay McInerney, internationally celebrated author of Bright Lights, Big City, turns his hand here to his lifelong love affair with wine. Peals of wisdom are offered on the subjects of the best wine for romantics, the parallels between Californian wines and floundering Hollywood stars, the choice of wine for the author's own debauched forty-eighth birthday party, the 'high-testosterone grape' that is Colin Farrell, absinthe, 'the wild green fairy', and what wine is best drunk with chocolate. At the same time McInerney is a genuine connoisseur, taking the reader on a tour through the wine regions of the world and imparting tried and tested advice on grapes and vintages, bouquets, noses and finishes.

"What came to mind when looking at Christophe von Hohenberg's book was... loved the scrapbook format and thought it was by far the best way to show photographs and the life of the photographer." Etheleen Staley - Staley-Wise Gallery The 1970s and 80s in New York were a dazzling age. Since the 1920s in Paris, the world had not seen such a cultural movement. Von Hohenberg lived and photographed this period, when the giants of fashion, art and society rubbed elbows with drag queens and addicts in clubs like the legendary Studio 54. This historic "time capsule" contains portraits of personalities like Allen Ginsberg, Julian Schnabel and Cornelia Guest, Robert F. Kennedy Junior and Britney Spears, to name just a few. Some are no longer with us, and some reign as icons of the century. With texts and handwritten letters from acclaimed American writers like Jay McInerney, Candace Bushnell, Anthony Haden-Guest, Michael Gross, and Bob Colacello

Soubor sedmi půvabných, krátkých próz, které čtenáře zaujmou především kromobyčejnou pestrostí a neuvěřitelnou lehkostí, s jakou byly napsány. A to nezávisle na šíři volených prostředí, ve kterých se jednotlivé minipříběhy odehrávají, psychiatrickou léčebnou počínaje a Kubou konče.