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A brilliant and moving work unique, refreshing, imaginatively powerful' New York Times

You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again, it might not... So begins our nameless hero''s trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrow''s hangover may be caused by more than simple excess. Bright Lights, Big City is an acclaimed classic which marked Jay McInerney as one of the major writers of our time.



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‘Probably the best book ever written about being young, about doing drugs and about music' * Tony Parsons, Daily Express *
‘McInerney earns his place in literary history with Bright Lights, Big City ... A landmark evocation of the wasteful decade it lampoons' * Guardian *
Bright Lights, Big City defined, and even determined, the mood of this whole town * Vanity Fair *

Bright Lights Big City

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 18 May 2017
      ISBN-13 9781408889398
      978-1408889398
      ISBN-10 1408889390
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A brilliant and moving work unique, refreshing, imaginatively powerful' New York Times

      You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again, it might not... So begins our nameless hero''s trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrow''s hangover may be caused by more than simple excess. Bright Lights, Big City is an acclaimed classic which marked Jay McInerney as one of the major writers of our time.



      Trade Review
      ‘Probably the best book ever written about being young, about doing drugs and about music' * Tony Parsons, Daily Express *
      ‘McInerney earns his place in literary history with Bright Lights, Big City ... A landmark evocation of the wasteful decade it lampoons' * Guardian *
      Bright Lights, Big City defined, and even determined, the mood of this whole town * Vanity Fair *

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