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“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

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David Moles February 20 2006 @ 9:21 am
And they say irony is dead.
David Moles February 20 2006 @ 1:47 pm
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.

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