by Jay McInerney · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782757808108
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«La belle vie» is the literary fiction novel by Jay McInerney, published in paperback (466 pages, in French).
Corrine and Russell Calloway live with their two children in a Tribeca loft when, on the night of September 10, 2001, they host a dinner that will be marked by the attacks of the following day. In the aftermath, Corrine volunteers at Ground Zero, meets Luke, and experiences a passion that unsettles her life.
It is the second novel in the Calloway trilogy, translated into French by Agnès Desarthe; this edition appeared in 2008.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in portraits of New York life and the resonance of 9/11 in personal relationships.
John Barrett "Jay" McInerney Jr. is an American novelist, screenwriter, editor, and columnist. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, and The Last of the Savages. He edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices, wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City, and co-wrote the screenplay for the television film Gia, which starred Angelina Jolie. He was the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine, and his essays on wine have been collected in Bacchus & Me (2000) and A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006). His most recent novel is titled See You on the Other Side, published in 2026. From April 2010 he was a wine columnist for The Wall Street Journal. In 2009, he published a book of short stories that spanned his entire career, titled How It Ended, which was named one of the 10 best books of the year by Janet Maslin of The New York Times.
