Jay McInerney - Bright Lights, Big City
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
THE VILLAGE VOICE
THE NEW YORK TIMES
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
RAYMOND CARVER
MADEMOISELLE
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
THOMAS McGUANE
THE TORONTO STAR
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
GEORGE PLIMPTON
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
BARRY HANNAH
Bright Lights, Big City is one of the great comic novels of the 1980s, a contemporary Lucky Jim fueled by a sharp, second-person narrative and images as deft and blithe as they are vivid.
WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL
PLAYBOY
TOBIAS WOLFF
SALON
ALSO BY JAY McINERNEY
NONFICTION
A Hedonist in the Cellar
Bacchus and Me
FICTION
How It Ended
The Good Life
Model Behavior
The Last of the Savages
Brightness Falls
Story of My Life
Ransom
Bright Lights, Big City
Imagine having the life you always imagined having
In Manhattan is a young man who has everything: for a wife, a successful model; for work, a job at a prestigious magazine that fulfills his literary aspirations; for friends, witty and attractive young professionals like Tad Allagash, ad man and hedonistextraordinaire, with whom he misbehaves in New York Citys best restaurants, clubs and parties.
Then all the lights go out. As we follow him through the course of a frenzied week, we discover that beyond the frolic and wondrous prospects this young man has, essentially, nothing. The question is, which is worse: living an illusion, or losing it?
Events at once comic and vicious conspire against him, and his dazzling downward spiral through the heart of nighttime New York illuminates this peculiar world even as it dulls his senses. Amidst the vast confusion of his decline and fall, he runs amok and away from the self he so often dislikes, en route to discovering who, after all, he is.
A VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES ORIGINAL
How did you go bankrupt? Bill asked.
Two ways, Mike said. Gradually and then suddenly.
THE SUN ALSO RISES
After dark you return to the scene of your former crimes to gather up loose odds and ends. Since the magazine went to press this morning, you can assume everyone will have gone home. You feel strange walking into the building, an infidel penetrating the temple. Your hangover from the Waldorf doesnt help.
As you come out of the elevator on twenty-nine, the first person you see is the Ghost. The elevator doors close behind you.
He stands in the middle of the reception area, head tilted to one side like a robin listening for worms, and says hello.
You feel compelled to turn around and run. Your mere presence seems shameful, especially after last night. The longer you wait, the harder it becomes to speak. Its as if hes deaf and youre dumb.
Evening, you say in a weird, flickering voice.
He nods his head. Im sorry to hear youre leaving us, he says. If ever you need a good reference
Thank you. Thanks very much.
Goodbye. He turns and rolls off toward Collating. More than anything yet, this strange encounter makes you feel the sadness of leaving.
You check the mirror at the corner of the hall. Claras door is closed and dark, as is the door which leads to the secret chambers of the Druid. Theres a light on in Fact. You proceed cautiously.
Megan is at her desk. She looks up when you come in, goes back to her reading.
Remember me?
I remember something about a lunch date. She keeps her eyes on her desk.
Oh, no. Im sorry.
She looks up. Youre always sorry.
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