Following the success of Brightness Falls--"his most ambitious novel" (The Boston Globe)--Jay McInerney now gives readers a sweeping story of a friendship as complex as it is abiding. Interweaving deeply personal dilemmas and the politics of race， sex， family， and society， The Last of the Savages moves from New England to the deep South and beyond， from the fevers of youth to the uneasy truths of middle age.