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Original Title:	The Good Life
ISBN:	0375411402 (ISBN13: 9780375411403)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Calloway Trilogy #2
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)

The Good Life (The Calloway Trilogy #2)

Jay McInerney

Hardcover | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.45 | 2934 Users | 283 Reviews

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Title	:	The Good Life (The Calloway Trilogy #2)
Author	:	Jay McInerney
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	January 31st 2006 by Knopf (first published January 1st 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. New York. Contemporary. Novels. Literary Fiction

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In The Good Life, Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.

Clinging to a semi-precarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing less than miraculous. Several miles uptown and perched near the top of the Upper East Side's social register, Luke McGavock has postponed his accumulation of wealth in an attempt to recover the sense of purpose now lacking in a life that often gives him pause. But on a September morning, brightness falls horribly from the sky, and people worlds apart suddenly find themselves working side by side at the devastated site.

Wise, surprising, and, ultimately, heart-stoppingly redemptive, The Good Life captures lives that allow us to see-through personal, social, and moral complexity-more clearly into the heart of things.

Ten years on from Brightness Falls, Russell Calloway is still a literary editor although in a diminished capacity; 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 making money, struggling to reconnect with his socially resplendent wife, Sasha, and their angst-ridden teenage daughter, Ashley. These two Manhattan families are teetering on the brink of change when 9/11 happens.

The Good Life explores through the lens of catastrophe that territory between hope and despair, love and loss, regret and fulfillment. But, ultimately, this is Jay McInerney doing what he does best, presenting us with the life of New York City in all its moral complexity.

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As a New York writer, McInerny attempts his obligatory 9/11 novel. I have never read any of his other works, but here he rerpises some characters from an earlier, more famous work. His sense of place is strong: This story takes place between New York and Nashville (the latter only in the last few chapters), two places I happen to know well, and he captures the locations well. His writing is graceful, and overall the book was pleasurable to read. The main drawback is thematic. A "9/11 Novel"

A powerful novel of the shaken lives of upper class New Yorkers in the 9/11 aftermath. The characters lurch forward in their lives, wondering what the world means now. The horrific fire of terrorist attack on NYC simultaneously blinds and enlightens them, with widely varying effects. McInerney knows his setting and his characters so well, and the conclusion of the novel is wonderfully, achingly Whartonesque. 5 stars.

I can't quite decide how I feel about this book. I thought some of the characters were well developed, some just types. I also thought he did a good job presenting how 9/11 was ever-present in everyone's minds at the time but started to take a back seat to one's own problems from time to time once the immediate horror faded. Nicely written but it left me feeling a little cold.

All the low starred reviews of this novel that feature first on Goodreads have agitated me to the point that I cannot properly formulate my own full review.I can tell you this: I read this novel and felt achingly sad when it ended, not for the storys end but because Id finished the novel. I roamed the house unable to settle with a new novel and finally gave up. Picked up The Good Life again and started to re-read it. Yes, I read the book, and then read it again, straight away! I think that might

I really loved this book. My first reaction was, "why are there so many bad reviews of this book on goodreads?" Then, I thought how there are so many times that books are given rave reviews by so many people and I end up hating them and there are times when there are books everyone hates and I love them.That is the beauty with books...there are books out there for everyone...some books speak to certain people and they don't speak to others. There is nothing super exciting about the book...it

It was trite fast reading. You never really care that much for the characters and they all seem pretty miserable. And then using the Sept. 11 disaster as a reason to launch into an affair is just kind of a cliche.

I actually liked the book in the beginning. But there were a growing number of developments that really bothered me. Most of all the fact that the moral of the novel is, that it's important to stay with your reping husband "for the childrens sake". To keep tha holy entity of family intact. WTF?!