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... The Brandon Sun: Online Edition Saturday, February 18th 2006 Quick Navigation -- Classifieds Contact Us Fund Raising History Media Guide News - Local News - Provincial News - National News - World News - Lifestyles News - Entertainment Obituaries Opinion Press Pass Privacy Policy RSS Feeds Site Map Sports Home local provincial national world opinion sports lifestyles entertainment Classifieds Obituaries Media Guide Contact us RSS feeds TV Listings Archive Letter To the Editor Submit Classified ad Fund Raising Privacy Policy Site Map Saturday, February 18th, 2006 Book Review: The Good Life Email Story Printer Friendly Version (AP) - Near the beginning of The Good Life, Jay McInerney's seventh novel, we become firmly entrenched in the author's familiar milieu.

"Hey, beautiful," a homeless man yells out to our passing protagonist, Corrine.

"I need a place in the Hamptons.

I need a movie role." The homeless man fits right in with this cast of characters.

Though McInerney's characters are older now - the once 20-something socialites and playboys that graced Bright Lights, Big City are now in their 40s - they still speak and act the same.

Despite the presence of children, added paunch and facial wrinkles, it takes just 41 pages for a woman to disappear into the bathroom with an unknown man for a quickie.

It's a scene that may as well be straight out of McInerney's Story of My Life.

The privileged Manhattanites in McInerney's world are sex-obsessed, often addicted or, at...

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