This fourth and final instalment in McInerney’s Calloway series offers a poignant conclusion to Russell and Corrine’s story as they confront aging, dwindling cultural influence and the gathering storm of a pandemic in a New York on the cusp of irrevocable change.

'Shows McInerney at his best' SPECTATOR
'Our modern-day Fitzgerald' VANITY FAIR
'One of the most gifted writers of his generation' OBSERVER

The eagerly anticipated final volume of Jay McInerney’s stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting fictional tetralogy: Brightness Falls, The Good Life, Bright Precious Days, and now See You on the Other Side

It's early 2020 in New York, and the looming threat of a global pandemic begins to unsettle the gilded lives of Manhattan’s literary and social elite. Now in their sixties, Russell and Corrine Calloway are navigating a new chapter: downsizing from their Harlem brownstone to a penthouse in the Village, grieving the death of Corrine’s mother, and all the while facing the encroaching anxieties of aging, memory, and cultural obsolescence.

Their daughter, Storey, prepares to launch her dream restaurant in Brooklyn just as fear begins to empty dining rooms and the city starts to shut down. Meanwhile, as the world tilts towards crisis, Russell is pulled between domestic stability and the temptation of an affair with a younger writer – an emotional turmoil which reignites complicated questions about fidelity and the alternate paths their lives might have taken.

Told with McInerney’s signature wit and elegiac prose, See You on the Other Side is a dazzling finale to the bestselling Calloway series, capturing the disorientation of a couple forced to confront their own mortality amidst shifting cultural tides and the slow unravelling of the world they once knew.

Details

ISBN13: 9781037200762
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 304
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Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 23.2(H)x15.2(L)x0.6(W)370
Weight (gm): 370

Author Biography

Jay McInerney came to prominence in 1984 with his first novel Bright Lights, Big City. He is the author of seven further novels: Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages, Model Behaviour, The Good Life and Bright, Precious Days, a collection of short stories, and three collections of essays on wine, one of which was the acclaimed A Hedonist in the Cellar. He writes a wine column for Town and Country and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, the New York Times Book Review and Corriere della Sera. He lives in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York.

Reviews

As the curtain closes on the Calloways' fraught love story, faithful readers will feel sad but satisfied. The reliable pleasures of McInerney's writing make even this darkest chapter a fun read * Kirkus *
Since Brightness Falls, we have followed the Calloways in two other novels set at crisis points in their marriage, but this one has an emotional depth that shows McInerney at his best * Spectator *
The tetralogy that began with 1992’s acclaimed Brightness Falls comes to a close with this volume, in which sixty-somethings Russell and Corrinne Calloway attend parties in early 2020 as the global pandemic encroaches. . . . McInerney’s always-sharp insights on social strata and human nature guarantee that in the midst of sadness we are also entertained * Los Angeles TImes *