If you are not happy, you can go to North Korea

Hard not to think of the couple Thirty years and dust / The good life from reading this novel by Jonathan Dee. Like the hero of the novels of Jay McInerney, Adam and Cynthia are young, beautiful, graduates of the best schools and live in the fast lane their super rich living in Manhattan for years 1990-2000; unlike them, however, they are totally devoid of moral and aesthetic sense. The first scene of the novel is one of the brightest I recently read in American literature during their wedding ceremony, Adam and Cynthia spread meet their guests and their families their hubris, amazing blend of beauty, of insurance and I-may-care attitude cope with stress or simple human relations basically demands of their relatives. Twenty years later, Adam has become a Cador of the investment bank, a socialite Cynthia alcoholic with expensive tastes and are more alone than ever. Relations with almost nonexistent family disowned, flawed relationships with colleagues and interested in their narrow little world, children abandoned to themselves, once raised by their nannies and day linked to their parents only by their credit card statements ( a brief glimmer of hope still for the boy).
With the fate of these individuals with all the gifts but only serve the worship of wealth and appearance, it is ultimately a moral novel (on people who lack) that we Dee book. I realize that many readers may find tedious display of this wealth, the boredom of those lives, the emptiness of those lives, but it is chokepoints that the novelist can deliver his message. If it is rather banal background (love your family, cultivate ties with your family, think of others), which is not, this is the style of Dee: a magnificent prose, unexpected metaphors, of the desired images. Basically, it's like a movie Sofia Coppola: nothingness and boredom portrayed with style and art.