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 |The Good Life], which follows them into middle age.
The book central characters are the fictitious editor Russell Calloway and his wife Corrine, who works as a stockbroker.
The title is taken from a line in the poem "A Litany in Time of Plague" 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.
This novel was written before the events of September 11, 2001, while its sequel The Good Life is about those events.