Jay McInernery – Bright Lights, Big City – First Edition 1985
£175.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘Bright Lights, Big City, published by Jonathan Cape in 1985. A very good book with some spotting to the page block and some off-setting to the endpapers and endflaps of the wrapper – no inscriptions. In a very good publisher’s clipped wrapper with a little wear to the extremities, and some fading to the spine.
‘Bright Lights, Big City’ by Jay McInerney is a novel set in 1980s New York, following a young, unnamed protagonist as he spirals through nights of partying, cocaine use, and emotional disconnection. Written in second-person narration, the book captures the disorientation of a fast-paced, hedonistic lifestyle while exploring themes of loss, identity, and alienation. McInerney’s sharp, stylish prose paints a vivid portrait of urban excess and existential crisis in the Reagan-era Manhattan literary scene.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘Bright Lights, Big City, published by Jonathan Cape in 1985. A very good book with some spotting to the page block and some off-setting to the endpapers and endflaps of the wrapper – no inscriptions. In a very good publisher’s clipped wrapper with a little wear to the extremities, and some fading to the spine.
‘Bright Lights, Big City’ by Jay McInerney is a novel set in 1980s New York, following a young, unnamed protagonist as he spirals through nights of partying, cocaine use, and emotional disconnection. Written in second-person narration, the book captures the disorientation of a fast-paced, hedonistic lifestyle while exploring themes of loss, identity, and alienation. McInerney’s sharp, stylish prose paints a vivid portrait of urban excess and existential crisis in the Reagan-era Manhattan literary scene.
