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THE EARTHQUAKE.(The Good Life)(Book Review)

The New Yorker

| February 06, 2006 | Menand, Louis | COPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Corrine, the heroine of Jay McInerney's new novel, "The Good Life" (Knopf; $25), is an attractive, fortyish woman who lives with her husband, Russell, a book editor, and their young twins in a loft in Tribeca. They spend the summers in Sagaponack and they entertain in style, but they rent the loft, they don't own it, and they worry about money. Corrine quit her job as a lawyer to raise the kids, and she's trying to get back to earning again by working on a screenplay based on Graham Greene's "The Heart of the Matter." She is vaguely dissatisfied with her marriage. Luke is a handsome, fortyish man who lives in an expensive co-op on East Seventy-seventh Street with his ...

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