num_pages: 271
description: From the writer whose earlier novels captured all the hypnotic excess of the 1980s comes a novel of splendid scope that traces the arc of an entire generation. Patrick Keane and Will Savage meet at prep school just as the 1960s are reaching life-off velocity. Patrick is Irish Catholic and already plotting his ascent into the upper class. Will is a renegade from a patrician Southern family who has dedicated himself to "freeing the slaves"--wherever he may find them--by means that range from controlled substances to the blues.Over the next thirty years, Will and Patrick will remain friends even as they pursue radically divergent destinies--and even as they harbor secrets that defy our categories of rebellion and conformity. A triumph of honed wit, x-ray observation, and bravura storytelling, The Last of the Savages is Jay McInerey's most engrossing and emotionally satisfying novel to date.
language: English
title: The Last of the Savages
titlecomplete: The Last of the Savages
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, Music, American Fiction, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1594
publisher: Vintage