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Original Title:	Bright Lights, Big City
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Megan, Amanda, Jamie Conway, Tad Allagash
Setting:	Manhattan, New York City, New York(United States)

Bright Lights, Big City

Jay McInerney

Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

Rating: 3.77 | 27970 Users | 1476 Reviews

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Title	:	Bright Lights, Big City
Author	:	Jay McInerney
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	August 12th 1984 by Vintage (first published 1984)
Categories	:	Fiction. New York. Classics. Novels. Contemporary. Literature. American

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With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodwill, controlled substances, and wit to sustain him in this anti-quest, he runs until he reaches his reckoning point, where he is forced to acknowledge loss and, possibly, to rediscover his better instincts. This remarkable novel of youth and New York remains one of the most beloved, imitated, and iconic novels in America.

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Mi ha tenuto ottima compagnia nel fine settimana. Una bella lettura, una storia dai molti risvolti, alcuni non proprio scontati, tanti e diversi stati danimo, ironia, discese e, forse, risalite. Come la vita. Una scrittura fulminante, rapida e intensa insieme.

It would be an understatement to say that I read and loved this book. It's more like snorting coke, hanging around with this Allagash dude, partying every night, struggling with writer blocks, hating job....you get the idea, typical well-read, shallow, cynical young men with a thing for art. I've read a good chunk of second person narrated books lately - Suicide by Edouard Leve, The reluctant fundamentalist, Fall by Camus, but this is the only book that served the whole purpose of the style.

Your brain at this moment is composed of brigades of tiny Bolivian soldiers. They are tired and muddy from their long march through the night. There are holes in their boots and they are hungry. They need to be fed. The need the Bolivian Marching Powder. Quote from the opening scene of this 1984 Jay McInerney novel told in cool, hip, drug-hyped second person. But, alas, this is merely the surface. Each time I read this book, I comprehend more clearly how the words on every page have sharp

Thanks to Bookface, you no longer get this book mixed up with American Psycho, and can now easily tell the difference between Bret Easton Ellis and Jay MacInerney. Good thing you cleared that right up before you embarrassed yourself at one of those writerly New York parties you're always getting invited to. It would've been awful to have spilled your drink on the wrong author, for the wrong reason.... whew!This book is about how terrible people's lives were before the Internet was invented.It is

Not sure what to think of this one. On the one hand, it's got a lot of very good prose (and funny, too, e.g. "You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy."), and you pretty much have to identify with the main character...he is you, after all.* On the other hand, and maybe this is symptomatic of first novels, but McInerney seems to feel the need to heap on some unnecessary dramatic events either in a quest for Total Sympathy or as a justification for the

You get used to reading a novel in second person pretty quickly, so it's not really that annoying. You enjoy how quickly the pages turn, how quickly the plot flows. It's a fun read, if not a deep one. You recognize the parallels with your own life, but don't feel the need to dwell on this. You end up liking the main character, even though you know he's an asshole. You're a bit resistant to some implied moralizing at the end, but you let it go. And you will make use of the metaphor of cocaine use

Libro che ha la capacità di trascinare in un vortice temporale diretto verso gli anni 80: inizia come un mix fra Afterhours di Scorsese e alcune delle migliori pagine di Bret Easton Ellis, continua come Office Space di Mike Judge per poi trovare una sua via originale che va oltre e supera tutti questi riferimenti. E per forza: sono tutti successivi al 1984 di questo libro. In questo sta la grandezza di McInerney: nellaver messo su carta, prima di tutti, un immaginario fatto di cocaina, modelle e