by Jay McInerney · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747589204
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«Bright Lights, Big City» is the novel by Jay McInerney, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Narrated in the second person, it follows a nameless young man who roams Manhattan at night after his mother's death, immersed in nightlife, drugs and fleeting relationships as he tries to leave his pain behind. Its tragicomic tone and its depiction of the city make it a generational portrait of the eighties.
The novel was originally published in 1984; this revised Bloomsbury edition, 'New Ed', appeared on February 5, 2007.
For readers of literary and contemporary fiction who enjoy urban stories set in 1980s New York.
John Barrett "Jay" McInerney Jr. is an American novelist, screenwriter, editor, and columnist. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, and The Last of the Savages. He edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices, wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City, and co-wrote the screenplay for the television film Gia, which starred Angelina Jolie. He was the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine, and his essays on wine have been collected in Bacchus & Me (2000) and A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006). His most recent novel is titled See You on the Other Side, published in 2026. From April 2010 he was a wine columnist for The Wall Street Journal. In 2009, he published a book of short stories that spanned his entire career, titled How It Ended, which was named one of the 10 best books of the year by Janet Maslin of The New York Times.
