The Last of the Savages: rejacketed
Mar 2014 · Bloomsbury Publishing
Ebook
288
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About this ebook
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'His best work to date' - Kate Saunders, Sunday Express
'Giving Scott Fitzgerald's fictional world a modern make-over increasingly engages Jay McInerney's energies as a novelist' - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
'An accomplished, courageous novel, beautifully constructed, able to span three decades with ease' - Literary Review
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A searing novel of interracial love and social change, spanning three decades of American history, from the acclaimed author of Bright Lights, Big City
When staid Patrick Keane meets his roommate at a New England boarding-school, a strange, enduring friendship of extremes is forged. For Will Savage, privileged white son of the Mississippi Delta, has embraced black soul music and adopted its raw, searing anthems as his own.
Spanning three decades from the turbulent sixties to the nineties, The Last of the Savages is a profound exploration of interracial love, music, family, honour and friendship.
'His best work to date' - Kate Saunders, Sunday Express
'Giving Scott Fitzgerald's fictional world a modern make-over increasingly engages Jay McInerney's energies as a novelist' - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times
'An accomplished, courageous novel, beautifully constructed, able to span three decades with ease' - Literary Review
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A searing novel of interracial love and social change, spanning three decades of American history, from the acclaimed author of Bright Lights, Big City
When staid Patrick Keane meets his roommate at a New England boarding-school, a strange, enduring friendship of extremes is forged. For Will Savage, privileged white son of the Mississippi Delta, has embraced black soul music and adopted its raw, searing anthems as his own.
Spanning three decades from the turbulent sixties to the nineties, The Last of the Savages is a profound exploration of interracial love, music, family, honour and friendship.
About the author
One of a dazzling new generation of American writers (including Bret Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz), Jay McInerney came to prominence in 1984 with his first novel Bright Lights, Big City. He is the author of six further novels: Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages, Model Behaviour and The Good Life, the collection of stories How It Ended and, most recently, a work of non-fiction, A Hedonist in the Cellar. The Last Bachelor is his second collection of stories. He lives in New York City.
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