Jay Mcinerney

• Sep-1985
• / General Fiction

Ransom, Jay McInerney's second novel, belongs to the distinguished tradition of novels about exile. Living in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, Christopher Ransom seeks a purity and simplicity he could not find at home, and tries to exorcise the ...

• Sep-1989
• / Literary

A “brilliant” novel of a party girl in 1980s Manhattan, by the author of Bright Lights, Big City (The Sunday Times).   Twenty-something aspiring actress Alison Poole is well versed in hopping the clubs, shopping Chanel, falling in and out of...

• Jun-1992
• / General Fiction

With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editor...

• Jun-1992
• / General Fiction

Combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us a novel that is stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting. As he maps the fault lines spreading through t...

• May-1996
• / General Fiction

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 a...

• Sep-1996
• / General Fiction

• Oct-1998
• / General Fiction

"A Great Gatsby for the end of the century."--The Baltimore Sun"Swift and amusing. . . .  An astute social observer of the cruelties of modern New York, [McInerney] is also capable of great tenderness." --The Boston Globe Jay McInerney retu...

• Aug-2001
• / Literary

From the writer whose first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation, a collection of twenty-six stories, new and old, that trace the arc of his career for nearly three decades....

• Feb-2006
• / General Fiction

In this bestselling novel, the author of Bright Lights, Big City unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in a powerfully searing work of fiction.Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russ...

• May-2015
• / General Fiction

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection That summer in New York, everyone was wearing yellow ties; the stock market was coming into a long bull run; and Corrine and Russell Calloway quit smoking.    From the writer whos...

• May-2016
• / Literary

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection   In the northern hills of Pakistan, by the border with Afghanistan, a drug deal goes horribly wrong. Trey’s friend has been captured. His girlfriend, Michelle, succumbs to her heroin addictio...

• Aug-2016
• / Literary

From the best-selling author of Bright Lights, Big City: a sexy, vibrant, cross-generational New York story--a literary and commercial triumph of the highest order. Even decades after their arrival, Corrine and Russell Calloway still feel as if ...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction

• Apr-2026
• / Literary

Once again brilliantly combining the lyrical observation of F. Scott Fitzgerald with the laser-bright social satire of Evelyn Waugh, Jay McInerney gives us the stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting final volume in the tetralogy charting th...