Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney (English) Paperback Book

Description: Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney A rambunctious, deadly funny novel that goes for the right mark - the human heart Raymond CarverYou 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 heros trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrows 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Notes Reissued with a stunning new jacket design. Author Biography Jay McInerney is the author of the novels Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages, Model Behaviour and The Good Life, as well as one story collection How It Ended. He lives in New York and Nashville. Review Probably the best book ever written about being young, about doing drugs and about music * Tony Parsons, Daily Express *A rambunctious, deadly funny novel that goes for the right mark - the human heart * Raymond Carver *McInerney earns his place in literary history with Bright Lights, Big City, the comic morality tale of a spoilt young man making a mess of his life in Manhattan ... a landmark evocation of the wasteful decade it lampoons * Guardian *The seminal novel of the 1980s * New York Times * Promotional A rambunctious, deadly funny novel that goes for the right mark - the human heart Raymond Carver Review Quote Probably the best book ever written about being young, about doing drugs and about music Promotional "Headline" A rambunctious, deadly funny novel that goes for the right mark - the human heart Raymond Carver Feature Hailed as one of the landmark New York novels of the eighties alongside Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis, Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz and The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolff Details ISBN1408889390 Pages 192 Year 2017 ISBN-10 1408889390 ISBN-13 9781408889398 Format Paperback Media Book Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Language English NZ Release Date 2017-05-18 Publication Date 2017-05-18 UK Release Date 2017-05-18 Author Jay McInerney Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audience General AU Release Date 2017-07-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:102426302;

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