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The success of his debut novel bright lights, big city brought jay mcinerney an astonishing amount of media coverage. He edited the penguin book of new american voices, wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of bright lights, big city, and cowrote the screenplay for the television film gia, which starred. Publication date 1987 topics young men new york state new york fiction. Read bright lights big city online, read in mobile or kindle. Bright lights, big city is a 1988 american drama film directed by james bridges, starring michael j.
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Jay mcinerney came to prominence in 1984 with his first novel bright lights, big city. Bright light big city losing and getting lost in postmodern new york book summary. First published in 1985, id long written jay mcinerneys bright lights, big city off as a drugs novel but how wrong could i be. Bachelor thesis from the year 2014 in the subject english literature, works, grade. I t is more than 30 years since bright lights, big city, jay mcinerneys first and most famous novel was published, and everything and nothing has changed.
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