Brightness Falls

Brightness Falls is a 1992 novel written by Jay McInerney. His fourth novel, it tells of a couple named Russell and Corrine Calloway who meet in college. Their story continues in McInerney's 2006 novel The Good Life, which follows them into middle age.

This article is about the Jay McInerney novel. For the Hampdens EP, see The Hampdens. For the David Sylvian and Robert Fripp song, see The First Day (David Sylvian and Robert Fripp album).
Brightness Falls
First edition (publ. Knopf)
AuthorJay McInerney
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1992
ISBN0-679-40219-5

The title is taken from a line in the poem "A Litany in Time of Plague" (1593) by the English poet Thomas Nashe. The full line furnished the title for the James Tiptree, Jr., novel, Brightness Falls from the Air, in which "brightness" is a euphemism for destruction. (A 1942 novel about life in the Blitz, by English writer Nigel Balchin, was entitled Darkness Falls from the Air.)

This novel was written before the events of September 11, 2001, while its sequel The Good Life is about those events.


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