January 20, 2013

The Last of the Savages
Jay McInerney
Always the Last to Know – As I started reading this engaging novel, I
realized that Jay McInerney has become one of my favorite writers, an author I
trust to spin a captivating tale, a wordsmith I relish and study. I also
discovered that my appetite for McInerney books I’ve not yet read is equal to
my love of re-reading F. Scott Fitzgerald. In part, I’m entranced by how their
Irish-American outlook colors the stories they tell – American stories of
tragedy and triumph, of social climbing, of tattered faith and romance. But it’s
also the writing that attracts me to both: the poetry of their sentences. “The
capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families,”
McInerney begins this novel of the unlikely bond between a southern rebel and a
northern conformist. That’s a sentence worthy of the great Fitzgerald at the
top of his game.

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