“There are some men who you wish would just grow up, and some men you hope will remain forever the same: boyish, eager, occasionally ridiculous…fun.  Jay McInerney is one of the latter….The poster boy for 80s excess.”  -Rachel Cooke, The Guardian

“Each generation needs its Manhattan novel, and many ache to write it. But it was McInerney who succeeded.”—The New York Times Book Review on Bright Lights, Big City

McInerney’s first novel in ten years unfolds across a period of stupendeous change—including Obama’s historic election and the global economic collapse. In Bright, Precious Days, he revists his characters Corinne and Russell Calloway, who are living the dream life in New York City.  They find themselves — and their marriage — tested more severely than they ever could have imagined, as Russell, an independent publisher, encounters an audacious, potentially game-changing opportunity, and Corinne, devoted to feeding the poor, faces a man with whom she’d had an ill-fated affair in the wake of 9/11.