Jay McInerney closes out the Calloway saga, in French, for the rentrée
"Rendez-vous sur l'autre rive" follows Corrine and Russell Calloway into their sixties, through Trumpism and the Covid crisis, in what Télérama calls a nostalgic but somewhat artificial epilogue.
Jay McInerney's long-running married couple, Corrine and Russell Calloway, return one more time in "Rendez-vous sur l'autre rive," published for this year's rentrée littéraire. According to Télérama, the pair are now in their sixties, and the novel places them against the backdrop of Trumpism and the Covid-19 crisis.
The book is presented as the final chapter of the saga McInerney has built around the Calloways over decades, a New York couple whose marriage has served as a recurring vantage point on the city and its changing mores. Télérama describes it as a nostalgic epilogue to that saga.
The review is not without reservations. Télérama suggests that the New York author seems to have lost some of his edge for this closing volume, calling it a touch artificial. No detail on the book's translator, publisher or length was included in the announcement.
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