'This story is a simple one, but McInerney delivers it with grace and wit. He does what a good novelist should: he takes an abstract idea and gives it life'

Alain de Botton

A shrewd, acidic portrait of literary life in Manhattan at the turn of this already frightful century

Guardian

Engrossing from start to finish, this compassionate novel depicts a very human response to tragedy

Mail on Sunday

McInerney's most fully imagined novel as it is his most ambitious and elegiac

New York Review of Books

'The subject of The Good Life is the cataclysm of 9/11, and McInerney lays claim to it with the authority and conviction of a native master ... McInerney here joins a small number of dissident novelists, headed by Norman Mailer, who change the way we look at American history'

Sunday Telegraph

'While those who read and fell in love with Brightness Falls all those years ago will devour The Good Life with relish, this is something which will appeal to those who have never read him before'

Irish Independent