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Title: The Last of the Savages: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jay McInerney ISBN: 0-679-74952-7 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (25 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The author of "bright Lights, Big City grows up...
Comment: "The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families. At least that's one way pf explaining my unlikely fellowship with Will Savage."
Patrick Keane, a social have-not, meets his prep school roommate Will Savage, a budding revolutionary from a prominent Southern family, in the fall of 1965. They share a common goal -- to distance themselves as far as possible from their families -- but for opposite reasons.
Patrick is ashamed of his working-class roots and hand-me-down luggage, while Will shuns his patriarchal father's status and everything he represents. The two become friends, with Will taking on the role of teacher in the subjects of music, issues and civil unrest. Patrick is an eager pupil, but always with an eye out for social climbing opportunities.
Patrick is a holdover of the world in which money, power and status are the acknowledged goals; Will rides the wave of the new world which is reshaping itself. As the simpatico but different character are fleshed out in "The Last of the Savages," there's almost the feeling that Jay McInerney is showing us two side of the same coin at once. As he traces their unlikely friendship through four decades, neither man seems a whole person. Together, they almost merge into the balanced, grounded enlightenment that should have come to them individually.
As Patrick states it, "I too want to hear the gypsies play and the mermaids sing; I want to drink the magic tea and walk barefoot on the beach in Bali, watch the bronzed dancers dance for me. But I am not strong enough to invent a role for myself outside of convention."
When McInerney hit the scene with his first novel in 1984, he was heralded as the Golden Boy of the hip-lit crowd. But if you're looking for another 'Bright Lights, Big City,' look somewhere else.
'Savages' has little of the I'm-so-clever word-play and fast-paced glamour of his earlier novels. What it offers instead is a more complex sense of story structure, characterization and insight. And while he may not be enjoying the exuberance of his early fame, McInerney has grown into a genuine writer.
Rating: 4
Summary: Jay McInerney if (finally) back in stride.
Comment: After more than 10 years of trying (and failing) to write a novel as flawlessly brilliant as Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney has finally penned a work worthy of his talent.Bright Lights is acknowledged as one of the best literary tours de force in the last fifty years because of the quality of the narration and the unfliningly honest look at the main character. With Last of the Savages, JM has come back to what made him a master from the start: Honest character representations and some of the most moving prose to be found since Fitzgerald. Unlike his works in-between these two novels, there is no sense of gimmick or betrayal of either the reader or the character. If you are a fan of modern literature at its best, Last of the Savages is well worth your time. While JM will probably never again match the brilliance he exhibited in Bright Lights (artists only get one masterpiece, after all), Last of the Savages at least has one of the few actual masters writing a work that lives up to his potential. It is full of characters you cna care about, relate to and root for, even in those moments when their actions show them in all their human flaws. McInerney is back, and he brings with him a few more years of life, a lot more experience and an approach as honest as it is beautiful.
Rating: 5
Summary: Be Careful What You Wish For
Comment: Jay McInerney has written another captivating novel; this time it is about two boys who meet in the all boy world of New England prep schools in 1965. Will, the wealthy Southern boy and Patrick, the son of a working class family in Massachusetts become roommates and best friends for life, despite their enormous differences. As Will rebelled against his Southern heritage and dominating father, Patrick worked dilgently to elevate himself socially by going to Yale and Harvard Law. Although they took widely divergent pathes; Will became a producer of blues music and heavy user of drugs while Patrick gained the social prestige he so longed for through his ivy league education, their boyhood bond of "best friends" remained a ballast for each of them. McInerney has given us another great story with characters so real that by the end of the book I felt as if I had known both Will and Patrick. Will was the type of boy I would have brought home and Patrick was the kind of boy my father would have chosen for me.
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Title: Model Behavior by JAY MCINERNEY ISBN: 0679749535 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 14 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Brightness Falls (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jay McInerney ISBN: 0679745327 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Story of My Life: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jay McInerney ISBN: 0679722572 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Ransom: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jay McInerney ISBN: 0394741188 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 1985 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Bright Lights, Big City: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jay McInerney ISBN: 0394726413 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 1987 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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