Brightness Falls is a 1992 novel written by Jay McInerney.

This part of "Brightness Falls" - the self-aggrandizement and the acceptance of status as ethics - makes the novel occasionally ludicrous.

In "Brightness Falls," the paste and the gems are offered with the same generosity.

A sequel to his 1992 novel, Brightness Falls, it takes place immediately before, during, and after the events of September 11, 2001.

One might begin: The hideous kinky love junkie and her volcano lover took the train to Brightness Falls.

In "Brightness Falls," he has written a big, richly textured beach book.

Several lesser ones are suggested in this excerpt from Jay McInerney's new novel "Brightness Falls.

Perhaps the novel's title captures this spirit best of all: "Brightness Falls."

Brightness Falls from the Air (1985)

What matters here are some fictional characters, a few of them recruited and updated from McInerney's 1992 novel, "Brightness Falls."