Brightness Falls

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [ix], 416, [1]. Mid-blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; blue endpapers. Integral silk blue ribbon page marker.

Signed by Author to title-page.

Author's fourth novel, and first in the Calloway trilogy, followed by The Good Life (2006), and Bright, Precious Days (2016). A Book-of-the-Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club Alternate Selections. Excerpted in Esquire Magazine.

A cautionary tale of love and loss amongst Manhattan social-climbers set in the milieu of New York publishing, in the months leading up to the 1980s Wall Street crash. "Brilliantly delineated... McInerney's writing is ironic, penetrating and at times even lyrical. He has all the true instincts of a major novelist." –Joseph Olshan, Wall Street Journal