Bright Lights, Big City: Jay McInerney - Softcover

McInerney, Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408889390 ISBN 13: 9781408889398

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2017

Synopsis

'A brilliant and moving work - unique, refreshing, imaginatively powerful' New York Times

You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again, it might not... So begins our nameless hero's trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrow's hangover may be caused by more than simple excess. Bright Lights, Big City is an acclaimed classic which marked Jay McInerney as one of the major writers of our time.

About this title

Review:

'Probably the best book ever written about being young, about doing drugs and about music' (Tony Parsons, Daily Express)

'McInerney earns his place in literary history with Bright Lights, Big City ... A landmark evocation of the wasteful decade it lampoons' (Guardian)

Bright Lights, Big City defined, and even determined, the mood of this whole town (Vanity Fair)

From the Publisher:

Hailed as one of the classic New York novels of the 80s,
alongside Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis, Slaves of New York by Tama
Janowitz and The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolff

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1408889390
• ISBN 13: 9781408889398
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192