Jay McInerney’s ‘See You on the Other Side’ Review
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- See You on the Other Side opens the tetralogy in early 2020, following Corrine and Russell now in their 60s.
- Jay McInerney brings back the couple first seen in Bright Lights, Big City (1984) and Brightness Falls (1992) to close the series.
- Russell works as a fiction editor, flirting with young writer Astrid while battling pandemic‑related health concerns.
- Storey launches a new restaurant amid COVID‑19 restrictions, hoping to survive lockdown rules.
- Thomas Nashe supplies the novel’s title, a quote from his poem, linking the story to an Elizabethan source.
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