Jay McInerney
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