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Told in the second person, BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY is about a nameless young man's flight from mortality during one Manhattan night--a trip through nightclubs, parties, editor...Read more
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Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney (1987)
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Bright Lights Big City figures in modern fiction as a novel with a trick garnering much of its attractiveness. It should also be termed one of the better stories about big ci...Read more
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Excellent! Really captures the essence of what New York City in the 1980's was all about. The city has long since cleaned up, but it has lost some of its sparkle in the proces...Read more
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Told in the second person, BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY is about a nameless young man's flight from mortality during one Manhattan night--a trip through nightclubs, parties, editorial offices, and fashion shows, with drugs and wit and dubious friendships to carry him along. Jay McInerney's hugely influential--and, at its heart, wonderfully satirical--novel inspired an entire genre of books about the aimless, hopeless lives of druggy yuppies in the city. BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY is one of the best, informed by McInerney's street-smart comic sense and relentlessly clear eye. In 1988, it was made into a movie starring Michael J. Fox.
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Jay McInerney's bestselling masterpiece is now a United Artists film starring one of the hottest young actors working today, Michael J. Fox. A Manhattan yuppie seems to have it all: a successful model for a wife, a job at a prestigious magazine, and plenty of wild friends. But the lights go out, and in one week his life takes a drastic plunge downward.
The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.
The tragicomedy of a young man in New York City, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.
Industry Reviews
"[His] voice is a lot of us, whether young New Yorkers or not--cooly accurate, but sobbing inside a little."
(unknown) - Barry Hannah
"Terrific: remarkable, funny writing, a perfect power-to-weight ration."
(unknown) - Thomas McGuane
"It is a dazzling debut, smart, heartfelt and very, very funny."
(unknown) - Tobias Wolff
"...One of those rare writers who catches the moods, nuances and manners of a sub-culture with humor, finesse, skill, and accuracy."
(unknown) - George Plimpton
Told in the second person, BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY is about a nameless young man's flight from mortality during one Manhattan night--a trip through nightclubs, parties, editorial offices, and fashion shows, with drugs and wit and dubious friendships to carry him along. Jay McInerney's hugely influential--and, at its heart, wonderfully satirical--novel inspired an entire genre of books about the aimless, hopeless lives of druggy yuppies in the city. BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY is one of the best, informed by McInerney's street-smart comic sense and relentlessly clear eye. In 1988, it was made into a movie starring Michael J. Fox.
| Key Details | |
| Author: | Jay McInerney |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books |
| Series: | Vintage Contemporaries |
| Format: | Paperback |
| ISBN-10: | 0394726413 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780394726410 |
| Size | |
| Height: | 8 in |
| Width: | 5.3 in |
| Thickness: | 0.8 in |
| Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Publisher's Note
Jay McInerney's bestselling masterpiece is now a United Artists film starring one of the hottest young actors working today, Michael J. Fox. A Manhattan yuppie seems to have it all: a successful model for a wife, a job at a prestigious magazine, and plenty of wild friends. But the lights go out, and in one week his life takes a drastic plunge downward.
The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.
The tragicomedy of a young man in New York City, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.
Industry Reviews
(unknown) - Barry Hannah
(unknown) - Thomas McGuane
(unknown) - Tobias Wolff
(unknown) - George Plimpton
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Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney (1987)
Created: 08/09/07
Review For: Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney (1987, Paperback)
) Bright Lights Big City figures in modern fiction as a novel with a trick garnering much of its attractiveness. It should also be termed one of the better stories about big city night life and the precarious attachements of a life in the fast lane.
The trick of the work is that the story's point of view is second person, which is unusual and often unwelcomed by many readers. McInerney pulls it off. The story flows well, and if the reader is willing, creates a compulsion to see around the next corner. Second person POV is seldom done well. Bright Lights Big City is an example of second person narration in its most appropriate and effective useage.
The story is not complex and reads easily.
Bright Lights Big City should be welcomed as a change of pace from the ordinary.
The trick of the work is that the story's point of view is second person, which is unusual and often unwelcomed by many readers. McInerney pulls it off. The story flows well, and if the reader is willing, creates a compulsion to see around the next corner. Second person POV is seldom done well. Bright Lights Big City is an example of second person narration in its most appropriate and effective useage.
The story is not complex and reads easily.
Bright Lights Big City should be welcomed as a change of pace from the ordinary.
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Created: 07/08/09
) Excellent! Really captures the essence of what New York City in the 1980's was all about. The city has long since cleaned up, but it has lost some of its sparkle in the process and became a much more sterile place.
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