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Jay McInerney's characters include a young woman holed up in a remote cabin while her married boyfriend campaigns for the highest of all offices, a family celebrating the holidays while mired in loss year after year, a couple whose experiments in sexuality cross every line imaginable, an actor visiting his wife in rehab, a doctor treating a variety of convicts and his own criminal past, and a young socialite who is called home to nurse her mother, as well as Russell and Corinne Calloway, who featured in Jay's novels Brightness Falls and The Good Life.
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"[McInerney] has the storyteller's gift of making the familiar seem strange, of casting new light on old ground. The results are funny, shocking, and moving."
Sunday Telegraph
"How It Ended reminds us how impressively broad McInerney's scope has been and how confidently he has ranged across wide swaths of our national experience…McInerney's contribution-and it is a major one-is to have revitalized the Irish Catholic expiatory tradition of F. Scott Fitzgerald and John O'Hara…McInerney's gifts have never been in question. He possesses the literary naturalist's full tool k
New York Times Book Review (front page)
"[McInerney's] stories have grown more elegant, subtle, shapely and reflective over time, to the point where some of the recent works are perfect specimens."
New York Times