|
Showing 1 - 17 of
17 matches in All Departments
A memoir and manifesto from the world’s most Michelin starred
chef, Alain Ducasse, with introductions by internationally renowned
writer Jay McInerney and chef Clare Smyth. At twelve years
old, Alain Ducasse had never been to a restaurant. Less than
fifteen years later, he received his first Michelin star. Today he
is one of just two chefs to have been awarded twenty-one
stars. Now, for the very first time, Ducasse shares a
lifetime of culinary inspirations and passions in a book that is
part memoir and part manifesto. Good Taste takes us on a journey
from his childhood, where he picked mushrooms with his grandfather
on a farm in Les Landes, to setting up groundbreaking schools and
restaurants across the world. He is now taking off his chef’s
whites and passing on what he knows to the next generation.Â
Ducasse writes a poignant ode to the humble vegetables that have
inspired his entire cuisine and to the masters that guided him
along the way, from Paris to New York to Tokyo. As he looks to the
future, he reflects on just what ‘good taste’ means.
'A brilliant and moving work - unique, refreshing, imaginatively
powerful' New York Times You are at a nightclub talking to a girl
with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard
Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the
bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again,
it might not... So begins our nameless hero's trawl through the
brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has
to offer yet suspecting that tomorrow's hangover may be caused by
more than simple excess. Bright Lights, Big City is an acclaimed
classic which marked Jay McInerney as one of the major writers of
our time.
'Stylish observation ...Suspenseful and well told' Lionel Shriver,
Financial Times It is 2008 and Russell and Corrine Calloway have
spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Obama and
Clinton are fighting for leadership and the collapse of Lehman
Brothers looms. Meanwhile, Russell is running his own publishing
company, and clinging to their downtown loft; Corrine manages a
charity, and is desperate to move somewhere with more space for
their twins. Although they try to forget each other's past
indiscretions, when Jeff Pierce's posthumous novel gathers a new
cult following, the memory of their friend begins to haunt the
couple. Then, with devastating timing, Corrine's former lover makes
an unexpected reappearance...
|
The Ginger Man (Paperback)
J.P. Donleavy; Introduction by Jay McInerney
|
R464
R395
Discovery Miles 3 950
Save R69 (15%)
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
First published in Paris in 1955, and originally banned in the
United States, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is now recognized the
world over as a masterpiece and a modern classic of the highest
order. Set in Ireland just after World War II, "The Ginger Man" is
J. P. Donleavy's wildly funny, picaresque classic novel of the
misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American
ne'er-do-well studying at Trinity College in Dublin. He barely has
time for his studies and avoids bill collectors, makes love to
almost anything in a skirt, and tries to survive without having to
descend into the bottomless pit of steady work. Dangerfield's
appetite for women, liquor, and general roguishness is
insatiable--and he satisfies it with endless charm.
_______________ 'A shrewd, acidic portrait of literary life in
Manhattan at the turn of this already frightful century' - Guardian
'A beautiful, affecting novel, one of the best yet inspired by
9/11' - Sunday Telegraph 'Engrossing from start to finish, this
compassionate novel depicts a very human response to tragedy' -
Mail on Sunday _______________ Jay McInerney's classic novel of New
York in the shadow of 9/11 tells a story of love, family and
conflicting desires Ten years on from Brightness Falls, Russell
Calloway is still a literary editor; his wife Corrine has
sacrificed her career to watch anxiously over their children.
Across town Luke McGavock, a wealthy ex-investment banker, is
taking a sabbatical from moneymaking, struggling to reconnect with
his socially resplendent wife Sasha and their angst-ridden teenage
daughter, Ashley. These two Manhattan families are teetering on the
brink of change when 9/11 happens. Through the lens of catastrophe,
The Good Life explores that territory between hope and despair,
love and loss, regret and fulfilment. This is Jay McInerney doing
what he does best, presenting us with life in New York City, in all
its moral complexity. _______________
Photographer Christophe von Hohenberg's photographs give the
impression of squinting against the glaring summer sun-bleached out
details blur and feint gestures carve out the presence of figures
against the vast oceanic expanse. Allowing himself to be "blinded
by the light" von Hohenberg has found harmony on the beaches of the
Hamptons, a place that cleanses, renews, and soothes. As delicate
smears and ghostly shapes flesh out the familiar yet distant
dreamscape of the beaches, von Hohenberg's photographs intimate an
ineffable feeling-haunting, serene, and sublime. The White Album of
the Hamptons provides a visual record of von Hohenberg's experiment
in capturing the soul of the Hamptons and its unseen world of
transcendent illumination through black-and-white photographs.
A colourful, multi-facted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, Manhattan Transfer ranks with Joyce's Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city. Using experimental montage and collage techniques borrowed from the cinema, and the jumbled case histories of a picaresque range of characters from dockside crapshooters to high-society flappers, Dos Passos constructs a brilliant picture of New York City as a great futuristic machine filled with motion, drama and human tragedy.
"Ransom," Jay McInerney's second novel, belongs to the
distinguished tradition of novels about exile. Living in Kyoto, the
ancient capital of Japan, Christopher Ransom seeks a purity and
simplicity he could not find at home, and tries to exorcise the
terror he encountered earlier in his travels--a blur of violence
and death at the Khyber Pass.
Ransom has managed to regain control, chiefly through the rigors of
karate. Supporting himself by teaching English to eager Japanese
businessmen, he finds company with impresario Miles Ryder and
fellow expatriates whose headquarters is Buffalo Rome, a blues-bar
that satisfies the hearty local appetite for Americana and
accommodates the drifters pouring through Asia in the years
immediately after the fall of Vietnam.
Increasingly, Ransom and his circle are threatened, by everything
they thought they had left behind, in a sequence of events whose
consequences Ransom can forestall but cannot change.
Jay McInerney details the pattern of adventure and disillusionment
that leads Christopher Ransom toward an inevitable reckoning with
his fate--in a novel of grand scale and serious implications.
Country & Townhouse's Best Book for Christmas, 2018 A
delectable anthology celebrating the finest writing on wine. In
this richly literary anthology, Jay McInerney - bestselling
novelist and acclaimed wine columnist for Town & Country, the
Wall Street Journal and House and Garden - selects over twenty
pieces of memorable fiction and nonfiction about the making,
selling and, of course, drinking of fine wine. Including excerpts
from novels, short fiction, memoir and narrative nonfiction, Wine
Reads features big names in the trade and literary heavyweights
alike. We follow Kermit Lynch to the Northern Rhone, while
long-time New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling raises feeding and
imbibing on a budget in Paris into something of an art form.
Michael Dibdin's fictional Venetian detective Aurelio Zen gets a
lesson in Barolo, Barbaresco and Brunello vintages from an
eccentric celebrity, and writer and gourmet Joseph Wechsberg visits
the medieval Chateau d'Yquem to sample different years of the roi
des vins. Also showcasing an iconic scene from Rex Pickett's
Sideways and work by Jancis Robinson, Roald Dahl, Auberon Waugh and
McInerney himself, this is an essential volume for any disciple of
Bacchus.
Corrine Calloway is a young stockbroker on Wall Street, her husband
Russell an underpaid but ambitious publishing editor. The happily
married couple head into New York's 1980s gold rush, awash with
prospects and promise, where the best and brightest vie with the
worst and most craven for riches, fame and the love of beautiful
people. But the Calloways soon discover that what goes up must come
crashing down, both on Wall Street and at home. Brightness Falls
captures lives-in-the-making: men and women confronting adulthood
with wit and low behaviour, fear and confusion, and, just
occasionally, a little honesty and decency.
From the bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls comes a chronicle of a generation, as enacted by two men who represent all the passions and extremes of the class of 1969. Patrick Keane and Will Savage meet at prep school at the beginning of the explosive '60s. Over the next 30 years, they remain friends even as they pursue radically divergent destinies--and harbor secrets that defy rebellion and conformity.
Country & Townhouse's Best Book for Christmas, 2018 A
delectable anthology celebrating the finest writing on wine. In
this richly literary anthology, Jay McInerney - bestselling
novelist and acclaimed wine columnist for Town & Country, the
Wall Street Journal and House and Garden - selects over twenty
pieces of memorable fiction and nonfiction about the making,
selling and, of course, drinking of fine wine. Including excerpts
from novels, short fiction, memoir and narrative nonfiction, Wine
Reads features big names in the trade and literary heavyweights
alike. We follow Kermit Lynch to the Northern Rhone in a chapter
from his classic Adventures on the Wine Route. In an excerpt from
Between Meals, long-time New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling raises
feeding and imbibing on a budget in Paris into something of an art
form - and discovers a very good rose from just west of the Rhone.
Michael Dibdin's fictional Venetian detective Aurelio Zen gets a
lesson in Barolo, Barbaresco and Brunello vintages from an
eccentric celebrity. Jewish-Czech writer and gourmet Joseph
Wechsberg visits the medieval Chateau d'Yquem to sample different
years of the "roi des vins" alongside a French connoisseur who had
his first taste of wine at age four. Also showcasing an iconic
scene from Rex Pickett's Sideways and work by Jancis Robinson,
Benjamin Wallace and McInerney himself, this is an essential volume
for any disciple of Bacchus.
he bestselling Brightness Falls--now in trade paper from the author of Bright Lights, Big City. In the story of Russell and Corrine Calloway, set against the world of New York publishing, McInerney provides a stunningly accomplished portrayal of people contending with early success, then getting lost in the middle of their lives.
The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|