See You on the Other Side

The celebration of the thirty-fifth wedding anniversary of Russell Calloway’s best friend. Washington Lee - “the least likely monogamist of his acquaintance somehow having become over the years a mode husband and father” - at the Odeon in the spring of 2020 sparks an at once funny and moving autumnal reckoning with mortality for Russell and his wife, Corinne, as the spectre of the COVID-19 virus spreads. In this moment of unprecedented upheaval - frantic and fraught real-time response, piercing personal and political impact - the Calloways find themselves and their marriage tested in ways they could never have expected as fatal consequences inexorably ensue. Here - extraordinary for its poignant lyricism and biting satire - is the eagerly anticipated final volume of one of the most ambitious literary undertakings of the past four decades: Jay McInerney’s stunningly accomplished and profoundly affecting fictional tetralogy - Brightness Falls; The Good Life; Bright, Precious Days; and now See You on the Other Side - charting the vicissitudes of the marriage of Russell and Corrine Calloway, now well into their sixties, against the backdrop of the urgent crises that have bedevilled our