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Good Taste - A Life of Food and Passion: Alain Ducasse Good Taste - A Life of Food and Passion
Alain Ducasse; Introduction by Jay McInerney, Clare Smyth; Translated by Polly Mackintosh
R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.  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.

Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback): Jay McInerney Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
Jay McInerney 1
R341 R278 Discovery Miles 2 780 Save R63 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'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.

Bright, Precious Days (Paperback): Jay McInerney Bright, Precious Days (Paperback)
Jay McInerney 1
R522 R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Save R99 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'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...

Story of My Life (Paperback): Jay McInerney Story of My Life (Paperback)
Jay McInerney
R371 R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Save R64 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Originally published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1988, and now reissued by Grove Press, The Story of My Life by Jay McInerney is a hilarious, sobering portrait of 1980s New York City featuring twenty-something actress Alison Poole and her coterie of club-hopping, coke-addicted friends. In this breathlessly paced novel, McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. Alison Poole is a budding actress already fatally well versed in hopping the clubs, shopping Chanel, falling in and out of lust, and abusing other people's credit cards. As Alison races toward emotional breakdown, McInerney gives us a funny yet oddly touching portrait of a postmodern Holly Golightly coming to terms with a world in which everything is permitted and nothing really matters.

The Ginger Man (Paperback): J.P. Donleavy 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.

Manhattan Transfer (Paperback, New Ed): John DOS Passos Manhattan Transfer (Paperback, New Ed)
John DOS Passos; Introduction by Jay McInerney
R315 R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Save R57 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

The Good Life (Paperback): Jay McInerney The Good Life (Paperback)
Jay McInerney
R469 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R109 (23%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days

In "The Good "Life, Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.
Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are wonderstruck by young twins whose provenance is nothing less than miraculous. Several miles uptown and perched near the top of the Upper East Side's social register, Luke McGavock has postponed his accumulation of wealth in an attempt to recover the sense of purpose now lacking in a life that often gives him pause. But on a September morning, brightness falls horribly from the sky, and people worlds apart suddenly find themselves working side by side at the devastated site.
Wise, surprising, and, ultimately, heart-stoppingly redemptive, "The Good Life" captures lives that allow us to see-through personal, social, and moral complexity-more clearly into the heart of things.

Bacchus and Me - Adventures in the Wine Cellar (Paperback): Jay McInerney Bacchus and Me - Adventures in the Wine Cellar (Paperback)
Jay McInerney
R408 R313 Discovery Miles 3 130 Save R95 (23%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days

Jay McInerney on wine? Yes, Jay McInerney on wine! The best-selling novelist has turned his command of language and flair for metaphor on the world of wine, providing this sublime collection of untraditional musings on wine and wine culture that is as fit for someone looking for “a nice Chardonnay” as it is for the oenophile.

On champagne: “Is Dom Pérignon worth four bottles of Mo‘t & Chandon? If you are a connoisseur, a lover, a snob, or the owner of a large oceangoing craft, the answer . . . is probably yes.”
On the difficulty of picking a wine for a vegetarian meal: “Like boys and girls locked away in same-sex prep schools, most wines yearn for a bit of flesh.”
On telling the difference between Burgundy and Bordeaux: “If it’s red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that’s left in the vase after the flowers have died, it’s probably Burgundy.”
On the fungus responsible for the heavenly flavor of the dessert wine called Sauternes: “Not since Baudelaire smoked opium has corruption resulted in such beauty.”

Includes new material plus recommendations on the world’s most romantic wines and the best wines to pair with a meal

The Good Life (Paperback, New edition): Jay McInerney The Good Life (Paperback, New edition)
Jay McInerney 1
R344 R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Save R64 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

_______________ '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. _______________

The White Album of the Hamptons - Photographs (Hardcover): Christoph Von Hohenberg The White Album of the Hamptons - Photographs (Hardcover)
Christoph Von Hohenberg; Foreword by Jay McInerney
R900 Discovery Miles 9 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Wine Reads - A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing (Paperback): Jay McInerney Wine Reads - A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing (Paperback)
Jay McInerney
R488 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R75 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this richly literary anthology, Jay McInerney--bestselling novelist and acclaimed wine columnist for Town & Country, 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. In real life, and over half a century ago, 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.

Wine Reads - A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing (Paperback, Main): Jay McInerney Wine Reads - A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing (Paperback, Main)
Jay McInerney 1
R323 R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Save R60 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

How It Ended - New and Collected Stories (Paperback): Jay McInerney How It Ended - New and Collected Stories (Paperback)
Jay McInerney
R458 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Save R99 (22%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days

From the writer whose first novel, "Bright Lights, Big City, " defined a generation and whose seventh and most recent, "The Good Life, " was an acclaimed national best seller, a collection of stories new and old that trace the arc of his career over nearly three decades. In fact, the short story, as A. O. Scott wrote in "The New York Times Book Review, "shows "McInerney in full command of his gifts . . . These stories, with their bold, clean characterizations, their emphatic ironies and their disciplined adherence to sound storytelling principles, reminded me of, well, Fitzgerald and also of Hemingway--of classic stories like 'Babylon Revisited' and 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.' They are models of the form."
Only seven of these stories have ever been collected in a book, but all twenty-six unveil and re-create the manic flux of our society. Whether set in New England, Los Angeles, New York or the South, they capture various stages of adulthood, from early to budding to entrenched to resentful: a young man confronting the class system at a summer resort; a young woman holed up in a remote cabin while her (married) boyfriend campaigns for the highest office of all; a couple whose experiments in sexuality cross every line imaginable; an actor visiting his wife in rehab; a doctor contending with both convicts and his own criminal past; a youthful socialite returning home to nurse her mother; an older one scheming for her next husband; a family celebrating the holidays while mired in loss year after year; even Russell and Corrine Calloway, whom we first met in McInerney's novel "Brightness Falls."
A manifold exploration of delusion, experience and transformation, these stories display a preeminent writer of our time at the very top of his form.

"From the Hardcover edition."

The Last of the Savages (Paperback, 1st Vintage contemporaries ed): Jay McInerney The Last of the Savages (Paperback, 1st Vintage contemporaries ed)
Jay McInerney
R480 R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Save R61 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Bright Lights Big City # (Paperback): Jay McInerney Bright Lights Big City # (Paperback)
Jay McInerney
R447 R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Save R110 (25%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days

The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.

Wine Reads - A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing (Hardcover, Main): Jay McInerney Wine Reads - A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing (Hardcover, Main)
Jay McInerney 1
R559 R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Save R100 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Ransom (Paperback, 1st ed): Jay McInerney Ransom (Paperback, 1st ed)
Jay McInerney
R417 R369 Discovery Miles 3 690 Save R48 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"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.

Brightness Falls (Paperback, New edition): Jay McInerney Brightness Falls (Paperback, New edition)
Jay McInerney 1
R409 R334 Discovery Miles 3 340 Save R75 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

La Buena Vida (Spanish, Paperback): Jay McInerney La Buena Vida (Spanish, Paperback)
Jay McInerney; Translated by Patricia Anton
R768 Discovery Miles 7 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Brightness Falls (Paperback, 1st Vintage contemporaries ed): Jay McInerney Brightness Falls (Paperback, 1st Vintage contemporaries ed)
Jay McInerney
R545 R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Save R65 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Al Caer La Luz (Calloway 1) (Spanish, Paperback): Jay McInerney Al Caer La Luz (Calloway 1) (Spanish, Paperback)
Jay McInerney
R783 Discovery Miles 7 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Dias de Luz Y Esplendor (Calloway 3) (Spanish, Paperback): Jay McInerney Dias de Luz Y Esplendor (Calloway 3) (Spanish, Paperback)
Jay McInerney
R768 Discovery Miles 7 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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