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Jay McInerney

Jay McInerney

Americanb. January 13, 1955Popular Fiction

Jay McInerney is an American author whose debut novel Bright Lights, Big City captured the cocaine-fueled excess of 1980s New York. He remains a chronicler of the upper-class Manhattan social world.

Works

  • Bright Lights, Big CityA cocaine-addicted young man navigates the excess and emptiness of 1980s Manhattan→
  • RansomA failed novelist navigates relationships and disillusionment in contemporary Tokyo→
  • Story of My LifeA woman reinvents herself after her marriage ends in this semi-autobiographical novel→
  • Brightness FallsYoung bankers and artists face moral reckoning amid 1980s New York excess→
  • The Last of the SavagesA man reflects on friendship and class as he confronts a rival from his past→

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