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Last of the Savages

By Jay McInerney

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| Hardcover | 9780747525752

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Book Description

Following the success of Brightness Falls--"his most ambitious novel" (The Boston Globe)--Jay McInerney now gives readers a sweeping story of a friendship as complex as it is abiding. Interweaving deeply personal dilemmas and the politics of race, sex, family, and society, The Last of the Savages moContinue

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Babylon Re-Revisited

The 1980s in America were not unlike the 1920s, as almost everyone noticed. Costly foreign military adventures had wound down, postwar slumps had turned to booms, friends of business in both parties had power in Washington, the demand for illegal sub ... (read full critics)

nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

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"- I guess I want to know: are you happy?
- When you say happy... you mean ecstatic, you mean s.t. bigger than we are capable to sustain?"
"Our desires are infinite and insatiable; it is only by mastering them that we stand a chance of happiness. Or if not happiness, then peace, for the pursuit ... (continue)

"- I guess I want to know: are you happy?
- When you say happy... you mean ecstatic, you mean s.t. bigger than we are capable to sustain?"
"Our desires are infinite and insatiable; it is only by mastering them that we stand a chance of happiness. Or if not happiness, then peace, for the pursuit of happiness seems to me a cruel and frustrating creed, a terrible scam perpetrated on our callow polity"

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