Ransom
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‘A shrewd, acidic portrait of literary life in Manhattan at the turn of this already frightful century’ Guardian
How It Ended
‘Sharp, spare, exquisitely observed writing’ Daily Mail
Discover a world of sex, excess and urban paranoia where worlds collide, relationships fragment and the dark underbelly of the American dream is exposed. A transsexual prostitute accidentally propositions his own father. A senator’s serial infidelities leave him in hot water. And two young lovers spend Christmas together high on different drugs. McInerney’s characters struggle together in a shifting world where old certainties dissolve and nobody can be sure of where they stand.
‘McInerney is the type of American novelist to whom English readers instinctively warm … How It Ended is the work of a fine writer on the top of his form’ Sunday Telegraph
The Juice
Vinous Veritas
‘Superlative … McInerney writes with a charismatic flair’ Financial Times
Jay McInerney has written unique, witty, vinous essays for over a decade. Here, with his trademark flair and expertise, McInerney provides a master class in the almost infinite varieties of wine, painting a collage of the people and places that produce it all over the world, from historic past to the often confusing present. Stretching from France and South Africa to Australia and New Zealand, McInerney's tour is a comprehensive and thirst-inducing expedition that explores viticulture, investigates great champagne and delves into a vast array of styles, capturing the passion that so many people feel for the world of wine.
‘Wonderful … McInerney loves wine, and he writes beautifully about it … often insightful and funny’ The Times
A Hedonist in the Cellar
Adventures in Wine
‘A cracking read’ Daily Telegraph
Jay McInerney, internationally celebrated author of Bright Lights, Big City, turns his hand here to his lifelong love affair with wine. Pearls 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.
‘McInerney’s wine judgements are sound, his anecdotes witty, and his literary references impeccable. Not many wine books are good reads; this one is’ New York Times
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First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd1986
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