by Jay McInerney · Bompiani · tapa dura · ISBN 9788845219245
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«Si spengono le luci» is the contemporary fiction novel by Jay McInerney, published by Bompiani in hardback (396 pages, in Italian).
Set in the New York publishing world, the novel follows Russell and Corrine Calloway as they deal with early success and losing their way in maturity. The publishing scene, with its ambitions and tensions, sets the pace for their personal and professional lives.
Opens the Calloway Trilogy (The Calloway Trilogy); originally published in 1992 in English as Brightness Falls and translated into Italian by Stefania Bertola.
John Barrett "Jay" McInerney Jr. is an American novelist, screenwriter, editor, and columnist. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, and The Last of the Savages. He edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices, wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City, and co-wrote the screenplay for the television film Gia, which starred Angelina Jolie. He was the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine, and his essays on wine have been collected in Bacchus & Me (2000) and A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006). His most recent novel is titled See You on the Other Side, published in 2026. From April 2010 he was a wine columnist for The Wall Street Journal. In 2009, he published a book of short stories that spanned his entire career, titled How It Ended, which was named one of the 10 best books of the year by Janet Maslin of The New York Times.
