Bright Lights, Big City

Name: Bright Lights, Big City
Author: Jay McInerney

by Jay McInerney

A cocaine-addicted young man navigates the excess and emptiness of 1980s Manhattan

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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.

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