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Title: Please, Jay, stop.
Review: One of the worst novels I have ever encountered. Just dreadful from start to finish. One can sense McInerney's dissatisfaction with the knowledge that his first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, was his best work. But Jay wants to be regarded as a serious Artist, not some flash-in-the-pan wise guy who pulled off a clever narrative trick (second person narration) in his boyhood triumph. Thus we get The Last of the Savages, a totally overblown, contrived, pretentious bit of garbage that would never have seen the light of day had Jay not been the author of Bright Lights. His language is stilted and totally self-indulgent, the characters are invested with false poignancy and are believable only as creations of the author; any effort to see Will Savage or Patrick Keane as an actual person seems wholly laughable. Jay has done better, and will doubtless do better in the future. Best to sweep this under the rug and hope it never happens again.
