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Article: Bright Lights, Big City.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 27, 1988
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Bright Light, Big City
I READ ABOUT thirty pages of Bright Lights, Big City before the rightful owner of that particular copy of Jay McInerney's novel reclaimed it, and I never felt impelled to pursue the matter. It seemed to me like a reasonably competent piece of cheeky postgraduate writing: Holden Caulfield Gets Older But Doesn't Grow Up, yuppie subdivision, with lots of coke-snorting and girl-chasing, but nobody--least of all the novelist--concerned with where the money for this lifestyle was coming from. There were some fairly clever verbal tricks and, had I gotten further into it, I might have enjoyed, I suspect, the author's account of his fictional alter ...
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