Bright Precious Days

Resumen del libro

Even decades after their arrival, Corrine and Russell Calloway still feel as if they're living the dream that drew them to New York City in the first place: book parties or art openings one night and high-society events the next; jobs they care about (and in fact love); twin children whose birth was truly miraculous; a loft in TriBeCa and summers in the Hamptons. But all of this comes at a fiendish cost. Russell, an independent publisher, has superb cultural credentials yet minimal cash flow; as he navigates a business that requires, beyond astute literary judgment, constant financial improvisation, he encounters an audacious, potentially game-changing or ruinous opportunity. Meanwhile, instead of chasing personal gain in this incredibly wealthy city, Corrine devotes herself to helping feed its hungry poor, and she and her husband soon discover they're being priced out of the newly fashionable neighborhood they've called home for most of their adult lives, with their son and daughter caught in the balance.

Then Corrine's world is turned upside down when the man with whom she'd had an ill-fated affair in the wake of 9/11 suddenly reappears. As the novel unfolds across a period of stupendous change including Obama's historic election and the global economic collapse he inherited the Calloways will find themselves and their marriage tested more severely than they ever could have imagined.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Jay McInerneyx{0026}lt;/b (Hartford, Connecticut, 1955) es un escritor norteamericano. Tras trabajar como x{0026}lt;i fact-checkerx{0026}lt;/i en x{0026}lt;i The New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/i , estudió con Raymond Carver en la Universidad de Siracusa. El éxito de su primera novela, x{0026}lt;i Luces de neónx{0026}lt;/i (1984), lo convirtió en uno de los escritores con más fama y prestigio de su generación. Ha publicado siete novelas más: x{0026}lt;i Ransomx{0026}lt;/i (1985), x{0026}lt;i Story of my Lifex{0026}lt;/i (1988), x{0026}lt;i El último de los Savagesx{0026}lt;/i (1997), x{0026}lt;i Modelo de conductax{0026}lt;/i (1998) y la trilogía sobre el matrimonio Calloway, formada por x{0026}lt;i Al caer la luzx{0026}lt;/i (1992; Libros del Asteroide, 2017), x{0026}lt;i La buena vidax{0026}lt;/i (2006; Libros del Asteroide, 2018) y x{0026}lt;i Días de luz y esplendorx{0026}lt;/i (2016; Libros del Asteroide, 2021). x{0026}lt;/p