Джей Макинерни (Jay Mcinerney) Praise for Jay McInerney’s
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY
“A quarter-century after its publication, Bright Lights, Big City remains the sharpest and funniest of the many reprises of The Catcher in the Rye: the unhappy young footloose hero whose flaunted small miseries camouflage deeper unacknowledged ones; the suffocating pretensions of adults who enforce the tribal code with sadistic glee.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“Such a first novel…. Very funny and shrewd…. Great wind-sprint passages that leave tattered mystiques in their wake.”
—THE VILLAGE VOICE
“[Bright Lights, Big City] attests to the author’s comic gifts, his ear for street-smart dialogue, his instinctive feel for the rhythms of New York City.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Engagingly modest, funny, perfectly balanced.”
—THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
“A rambunctious, deadly funny novel that goes right for the mark—the human heart.”
—RAYMOND CARVER
“Remarkable…. McInerney has an incredible ability to pack more substance into one sentence than most writers are able to convey in ten.”
—MADEMOISELLE
“Hilarious.”
—THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“Terrific: remarkable, funny writing, a perfect power-to-weight ratio.”
—THOMAS McGUANE
“A triumph.”
—THE TORONTO STAR
“McInerney [is] the Truman Capote of a new generation.”
—ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
“The author is one of those rare writers who catches the moods, nuances and manners of a sub-culture with humor, finesse, skill and accuracy. A born stylist and remarkable discovery!”
—GEORGE PLIMPTON
“Bright Lights, Big City made its author a literary superstar, the hipster minstrel of after-hours Manhattan.”
—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“Jay McInerney’s voice is a lot of us, whether young New Yorkers or not—coolly accurate, but sobbing inside a little. Bright Lights, Big City makes eerie beauty out of that old dog truth.”