Bright Lights, Big City (Vintage Contemporaries) [ペーパーバック]

   これは、ニューヨークを舞台に、1人の若者の「喪失」と「再生」を描いた物語である。母の死、社会からの疎外感、ドラッグの魅力に次々と襲われ、すさんでいく一方のジェミーの暮らし。そんな彼をどん底から救ってくれたのは…。

With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodwill, controlled substances, and wit to sustain him in this anti-quest, he runs until he reaches his reckoning point, where he is forced to acknowledge loss and, possibly, to rediscover his better instincts. This remarkable novel of youth and New York remains one of the most beloved, imitated, and iconic novels in America.

The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.

"Bright Lights, Big City is a brilliant and moving work—unique, refreshing, imaginatively powerful and authentically conceived."
—The New York Times

"Bright Lights, Big City defined, and even determined, the mood of this whole town."
—Vanity Fair

"Short, sleek and very funny.... Beneath it's surface, though, a heart's cry for a saner, sweeter, more thoughtful and restrained existence."
—Chicago Tribune

"Each generation needs its Manhattan novel, and many ache to write it. But it was McInerney who succeeded."
—The New York Times Book Review 

Jay McInerney is the author of the novels Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages, Model Behaviour and The Good Life, as well as one story collection How It Ended. He lives in New York and Nashville. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。