Brightness Falls
- ISBN-10
- 1408854473
- ISBN-13
- 9781408854471
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 432
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-03-13
- Publisher
- A&C Black
- Author
- Jay McInerney
Description
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 where prospects and money seem to be flying everywhere, and the best and the brightest vie with the worst and most craven for riches, fame and the love of beautiful people. But the Calloways soon find out that what goes up must come crashing down, both on Wall Street and at home. Brightness Falls captures lives-in-the-making: men and women confronting their sudden middle-age with wit and low behaviour, fear and confusion, and, just occasionally, a little honesty and decency.
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