Hailed by _Newsweek_ as "a superb and humane social critic" with, according to _The Wall Street Journal,_ "all the true instincts of a major novelist," Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far. Clingin
The Good Life
β Scribed by Merrick, Gordon; Hulse, Charles G
- Book ID
- 109176889
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 562 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781497666436
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
When marriage gets in the way of attraction, something's got to give
Perry Langham grew up an outsider looking in. He wanted to join Manhattan high society, be invited to those parties, wear those clothes, and drive those cars. He is a man with only one endowment, and he pledges to use it to achieve his dream by any means necessary. He finally gets the opportunity he has always wanted when he is swept into the world of millionaire Billy Vernonβa place where anything seems possible.
In order to keep the fun going, Perry marries Billy's beautiful young daughter Bettina. And that's when the wheels fall off. Billy can't reconcile his attraction to young men with his new marriage, and he goes down a dark path from which there may be no return.
Based on the true story of a high-society murder case that drew international attention to its story of shocking crime and outrageous sex, The Good Life is Gordon Merrick's posthumous final...
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