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A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine by Jay McInerney
Category: Food Cooking Wine
Jay McInerney, internationally celebrated author of "Bright Lights, Big City", turns his hand here to his lifelong love affair with wine. Born of a popular monthly wine column in "House and Garden" magazine, this is a collection of writing planted firmly in the post-Sideways zeitgeist. Pearls of wisdom ...Show more
A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine by Jay McInerney
Category: Food Cooking Wine
In "A Hedonist in the Cellar, " Jay McInerney gathers more than five years' worth of essays and continues his exploration of what's new, what's enduring, and what's surprising-giving his palate a complete workout and the reader an indispensable, idiosyncratic guide to a world of almost infinite variety. ...Show more
A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine by Jay McInerney
Category: Food Cooking Wine
Jay McInerney, internationally celebrated author of "Bright Lights, Big City", turns his hand here to his lifelong love affair with wine. Peals 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 win ...Show more
Bacchus and MeAdventures in the Wine Cellar by Jay McInerney
Category: Food & Wine
Jay McInerney on wine?Yes, Jay McInerney on wine! The best-selling novelist has turned his command of language and flair for metaphor on the world of wine, providing this sublime collection of untraditional musings on wine and wine culture that is as fit for someone looking for “a nice Chardonnay” as it ...Show more
Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstr ...Show more
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction
'A rambunctious, deadly funny novel that goes for the right mark - the human heart' Raymond Carver You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivia ...Show more
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction
You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again, it might not. So begins our nameless hero's trawl through the bright ...Show more
Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction
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 tru ...Show more
Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction
It's 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is running his own publishing company, and clinging to their downtown loft; Corrine manages ...Show more
Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney
Category: Fiction
'Stylish observation . Suspenseful and well told' Lionel Shriver, Financial TimesIt is 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is runnin ...Show more