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Autumn seasonPublished Sep 4, 20261 min readSep 4, 2026 · 1 min

Jay McInerney brings back his Brightness Falls characters, thirty years on

In « Rendez-vous sur l'autre rive », out September 11 from Éditions de l'Olivier, McInerney revisits the protagonists of « Trente ans et des poussières » — now sixty.

An empty armchair by a rainy city window at dusk, evoking a story of characters grown older.
An empty armchair by a rainy city window at dusk, evoking a story of characters grown older.

Éditions de l'Olivier will publish Jay McInerney's « Rendez-vous sur l'autre rive » on September 11, as part of this year's rentrée littéraire, according to Livres Hebdo.

The novel returns to the characters McInerney introduced in « Trente ans et des poussières » (the French title of his 1992 novel Brightness Falls). Livres Hebdo notes they are now sixty, and that the author looks at them with a tone the outlet describes as tender and ironic.

No further details on plot, length or translator have been made available in the source material.

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