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From celebrated novelist Jay McInerney, whose extensive writing on wine has been called "crisp, stylish and very funny" (New York Times Book Review), comes an intelligent collection of great writing about wine

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Fin dai suo esordio con la prosa di "Le mille luci di New York", Jay Mclnerney ha ricevuto molti riconoscimenti. Tra essi c'è anche quello di "miglior scrittore di vini" da parte della rivista "Salon". Le sue recensioni enologiche sono stelle definite "brillanti, acute, comiche e spesso sfacciatamente provocatorie". Sul "New York Times" hanno scritto: "I giudizi sui vini di Mclnerney sono attenti, pieni di aneddoti sfiziosi e impeccabili citaz...

Jay McInerney is the author of twelve books, most recently Bright, Precious Days. His other novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Model Behaviour and The Good Life, which received the Grand Prix Litt¿ire. He writes a monthly wine column for Town & Country and was previously the wine columnist for the Wall Street Journal and House and Garden. Many of those columns were collected in Bacchus and Me and A Hedonist in the Cellar. In 2006 McInerne...

From celebrated novelist Jay McInerney, whose extensive writing on wine has been called "crisp, stylish and very funny" (New York Times Book Review), comes an intelligent collection of great writing about wine

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Molti anni sono trascorsi dal loro arrivo, ma Corrine e Russell vivono ancora la vita dei loro sogni nella città dei loro sogni: New York. Russell è un editore indipendente di alto profilo a cui si presenta una grande opportunità, che potrebbe cambiare tutto. Corrine è una donna impegnata nelle crociate sociali finché non torna in città l'uomo che l'ha trascinata in una storia clandestina di intensa passione. Sullo sfondo, l'America depressa d...

Jay McInerney was gefascineerd door de wereld van wijn vanaf de allereerste slok die hij nam. In Hedonist in de kelder richt hij zijn unieke gevoel voor taal en metaforen op zijn favoriete onderwerp. Het resultaat is deze vermakelijke verzameling verhalen over wijn en de bijbehorende cultuur met al zijn eigenaardigheden. Zowel de doorgewinterde wijnkenner als de lezer voor wie het verschil tussen Cru classé en tafelwijn niet zo belangrijk is, ...

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Stylish observation ... Suspenseful and well told' Lionel Shriver, Financial TimesRussell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Theirs is the generation that flew too close to the sun on wings of cocaine - and whose lives changed irrevocably when planes crashed into the Twin Towers. Now, in 2008, Russell runs his own publishing house and Corrine manages a food redistribution programme. He clings to ...

Al centro del romanzo una coppia: Russell "Crash" Calloway, un editor brillante e ambizioso, ma insoddisfatto della propria vita e del proprio lavoro, e la moglie, Corinne, una donna affascinante che lavora a Wall Street ma deve vedersela con le proprie contraddizioni. La loro vita scorre senza un attimo di tregua fra cene animate e party di lavoro, ma il loro matrimonio non va nel verso giusto. Russell e Corinne si allontanano l'uno dall'altr...

This collection of stories from the author of Bright Lights, Big City captures the manic flux of our society and how we reconcile our desires with our reality at various stages of adulthood, from budding to entrenched to bitter. Together, the stories provide a manifold exploration of delusion, experience, and transformation.

Ten years on from Brightness Falls, Russell Calloway is still a literary editor, his wife Corrine has sacrificed her career to watch anxiously over their children. Across town Luke McGavock, a wealthy ex-investment banker, is taking a sabbatical from moneymaking, struggling to reconnect with his socially resplendent wife Sasha and their angst-ridden daughter Ashley. Then 9/11 happens. Through the lens of catastrophe, The Good Life explores tha...

Corrine Calloway is a young stockbroker on Wall Street, her husband Russell an underpaid but ambitious publishing editor. The happily married couple head into New York's 1980s gold rush, awash with prospects and promise, where the best and brightest vie with the worst and most craven for riches, fame and the love of beautiful people. But the Calloways soon discover that what goes up must come crashing down, both on Wall Street and at home. Bri...

Even decades after their arrival, Corrine and Russell Calloway still feel as if they're living the dream that drew them to New York City in the first place: book parties or art openings one night and high-society events the next, jobs they care about (and in fact love), twin children whose birth was truly miraculous, a loft in TriBeCa and summers in the Hamptons. But all of this comes at a fiendish cost. Russell, an independent publisher, has ...

A dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls that charts the lives of Manhattan's Lost Generation post 9/11