Brightness Falls

Name: Brightness Falls
Author: Jay McInerney

by Jay McInerney

Young bankers and artists face moral reckoning amid 1980s New York excess

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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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