![]() ![]() By day he works in the fact-checking department of a prestigious magazine, by night he’s out clubbing with his friend Tad and trying to “lose himself” in drugs and (possibly) sexual encounters of the one-night stand kind. ![]() He’s been dumped by his wife Amanda, a beautiful (and now famous) model, but is keeping this fact secret from his colleagues and family. The story revolves around a young man living a precarious existence in New York in the 1980s. And, like many books of that ilk, it’s essentially a black comedy - and one that felt very close to my heart. First published in 1985, I’d long written Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City off as a “drugs novel” - but how wrong could I be? Yes, there’s a little bit of cocaine use in it, but this is a brilliant and memorable novel about one of my favourite subjects in fiction: journalism. What a joy this Bloomsbury classic proved to be. Fiction – hardcover Bloomsbury 240 pages 1992. ![]()
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