Understatement of the year.
“McInerney’s tale of 9/11 as a hookup device for aging Yuppies shows a tragic lack of perspective”– a good EW review of The Good Life.
Fri, February 17 2006 » Fiction
"A fast-paced, suspenseful dystopian picaresque, part Huck Finn and part bizarro-world Swiss Family Robinson..."
---Kirkus
Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Crawford Award. Title short story listed for the 2000 O. Henry award.
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And they say irony is dead.
Come to think of it, the two MacInerney novels I’ve read (Bright Lights, Big City and Ransom) also show a tragic lack of perspective. Only in those (well, in Ransom, certainly) the tragedy is internal.