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The new york times was not impressed with bright lights, big city when it first appeared in 1984. The hero of jay mcinerneys book bright lights, big city didnt have a name, but he certainly had a voice. Sometimes customers come in and they know what theyre looking for, because they read about the new valeria luiselli book or the new thomas mallon book or whatever, and theyre just excited to be part of that conservation. Bright lights, big city vintage contemporaries kindle. It was one of those books that id known about for years literarily significant but recommended pretentiously enough that i ignored it. Bright lights, big city by jay mcinerney, paperback. The novel bright lights, big city by jay mcinerney relates the tale of a young man working for a prominent newspaper in manhattan by day, while visiting many bars and nightclubs during the night. Jay mcinerney written entirely in the second person, mcinerneys first novel is a vivid account of cocaine addiction. You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. With the publication of bright lights, big city in 1984, jay mcinerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation.
City lights books is an independent publisher of fiction, essays, memoirs, translations, poetry, and books on social and political issues. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading bright lights, big city vintage contemporaries. On the other hand, the film version calls its leading character jamie conway and. Set over the course of one week in manhattan during the 1980s, american author. Bright lights, big city is a lost weekend for the 1980s, a chronicle of wasted days and misplaced nights. But what you really probably dont know, is that i started a youtube channel about a year ago now that is. The books narrator, plagued by a failed marriage and an unnamed sense of loss and guilt, watches helplessly from the. Bright lights, big city is an american novel by jay mcinerney, published by vintage books on august 12, 1984.
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