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  1. A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories
  2. A Brief History of the Flood
  3. A Closed Eye
  4. A Cure for Dreams
  5. A Far Country
  6. A Handbook to Luck
  7. A Lesson Before Dying
  8. A Movie...and a Book
  9. A Piece of My Heart
  10. A Special Providence
  11. A Stranger in This World: Stories
  12. A Thing (or Two) about Curtis and Camilla
  13. Abandon
  14. All I Could Get
  15. American Psycho
  16. Anagrams
  17. Angel Rock
  18. Another Green World
  19. Asa, as I Knew Him
  20. Ash Wednesday
  21. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
  22. Babylon and Other Stories
  23. Babylon Rolling
  24. Back in the World: Stories
  25. Bad Behavior
  26. Bailey's Cafe
  27. Bicycle Days
  28. Big Bad Love: Stories
  29. Black Tickets ((Rev)79 Edition)
  30. Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had to
  31. Breaking and entering
  32. Bridge of Sighs
  33. Brief Lives
  34. Brightness Falls
  35. Brother, I'm Dying
  36. Buffalo Soldiers
  37. Burning House
  38. Cathedral
  39. Catherine Carmier
  40. Chasing Windmills
  41. Checkpoint
  42. Chilly Scenes of Winter
  43. Claire Marvel
  44. Company
  45. Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories
  46. Day
  47. Day of the Bees
  48. December
  49. Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
  50. Delcorso's Gallery
  51. Dirty Work
  52. Distortions
  53. Dogwalker: Stories
  54. Dr. Haggard's Disease
  55. East of the Mountains
  56. East of the Mountains
  57. Edgewater Angels
  58. Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer, 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright: A Novel
  59. Empire Falls (HBO Tie-In)
  60. Enchanted Night
  61. Et Tu, Babe
  62. Evening
  63. Falling in Place (80 Edition)
  64. Father's Day
  65. Fidel's Last Days
  66. Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories
  67. Fireworks
  68. Five Gates of Hell
  69. Fraud
  70. Friend of My Youth
  71. Gallatin Canyon
  72. Ghost
  73. Glamorama
  74. God's Fool
  75. Goodnight, Nebraska
  76. Gorilla, My Love
  77. Great Neck
  78. Happy All the Time
  79. Henry of Atlantic City
  80. Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
  81. Honeymoon: And Other Stories
  82. House of Sand and Fog
  83. How to Breathe Underwater: Stories
  84. In a Country of Mothers
  85. In Lucia's Eyes
  86. In My Father's House
  87. In the Cut
  88. In the Driver's Seat
  89. In the Fall
  90. In Times of Siege
  91. Indelible Acts
  92. Jack
  93. Jamesland
  94. Jernigan
  95. Keep the Change
  96. Kentucky Straight: Stories
  97. King Bongo: A Novel of Havana
  98. Krik? Krak!
  99. La Casa En Mango Street
  100. Lark and Termite
  101. Last of Menu Girls - With New Introduction ((Rev)04 Edition)
  102. Latecomers
  103. Leaving Home
  104. Lewis Percy
  105. Like Life: Stories
  106. Like You'd Understand, Anyway
  107. Little America
  108. Love Always
  109. Love Among the Ruins
  110. Love in the Present Tense
  111. Lunar Park
  112. Lust and Other Stories
  113. Lying Awake
  114. Mama Day
  115. Matrimony
  116. Meditations from a Movable Chair: Essays
  117. Meditations in Green
  118. Memoirs of a Geisha
  119. Mile Zero
  120. Monkeys
  121. Moons of Jupiter (82 Edition)
  122. Mortimer of the Maghreb: Stories
  123. Mozart and Leadbelly (05 Edition)
  124. My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
  125. Netherland
  126. New England White
  127. Ninety-Two in the Shade
  128. Nobody's Angel
  129. Nothing But Blue Skies
  130. Nothing Lost
  131. Of Love and Dust
  132. Off Keck Road: A Novella
  133. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
  134. One To Count Cadence
  135. Our Lady of the Forest
  136. Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
  137. Palace Council
  138. Panama (78 Edition)
  139. Paradise
  140. Park City: New and Selected Stories
  141. Particles and Luck
  142. Peace
  143. Philadelphia Fire
  144. Picturing Will
  145. Plainsong
  146. Players
  147. Preston Falls
  148. Prisoners of War
  149. Project X
  150. Providence
  151. Rabbit Boss
  152. Ransom
  153. Ratner's Star
  154. Reservation Road
  155. Reservation Road
  156. Revolutionary Road (Movie Tie-In Edition)
  157. Rocket City
  158. Salmonella Men on Planet Porno
  159. Sam the Cat: And Other Stories
  160. Samedi the Deafness
  161. SAP Rising
  162. Scooter
  163. Secrets and Surprises
  164. Selected Stories
  165. Self-Help
  166. Short Cuts: Selected Stories
  167. Short People
  168. Snow Falling on Cedars
  169. So I Am Glad
  170. Songs without Words
  171. Spider
  172. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories
  173. State of Grace
  174. Still Life with Husband
  175. Story of My Life
  176. Taking Care: Short Stories
  177. The Abomination
  178. The Abortionist's Daughter
  179. The Amalgamation Polka
  180. The Assassin's Song
  181. The Back Nine
  182. The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
  183. The Big Girls
  184. The Bird Is a Raven
  185. The Brief History of the Dead
  186. The Cadence of Grass
  187. The Cage Keeper: And Other Stories
  188. The Chosen Place, the Timeless People
  189. The Clearing
  190. The Clearing
  191. The Closed Circle
  192. The Commitments
  193. The Commoner
  194. The Communist's Daughter
  195. The Country Ahead of Us, The Country Behind: Stories
  196. The Dead Fish Museum: Stories
  197. The Dive from Clausen's Pier
  198. The Double Bind
  199. The Emperor of Ocean Park: A Novel
  200. The Emperor's Children
  201. The End of California
  202. The Fan Man
  203. The Favorite Game
  204. The Feast of Love
  205. The Feast of Love (Mti)
  206. The Gone-Away World
  207. The Good Life
  208. The Great Divorce
  209. The Grotesque
  210. The Half-Life of Happiness
  211. The House of Sleep
  212. The House on Mango Street
  213. The Hundred Brothers
  214. The Joy Luck Club
  215. The King in the Tree
  216. The King Is Dead
  217. The Last Good Kiss
  218. The Laughing Sutra
  219. The Lay of the Land
  220. The Legal Limit
  221. The Lost City
  222. The Lost Father
  223. The Mezzanine
  224. The Names
  225. The Other
  226. The Outside World
  227. The Practical Heart
  228. The Progress of Love
  229. The Queen's Gambit
  230. The Rain Before It Falls
  231. The Redneck Way of Knowledge
  232. The Revolution of Little Girls
  233. The Rotters' Club
  234. The Sabotage Cafe
  235. The Salt Eaters
  236. The Senator's Wife
  237. The Soul Thief
  238. The Sporting Club
  239. The Tattoo Artist
  240. The Theory of Light and Matter
  241. The Translation of Dr. Apelles: A Love Story
  242. The Ultimate Good Luck
  243. The Uses of Enchantment
  244. The Varieties of Romantic Experience
  245. The View from the Seventh Layer
  246. The Voyage
  247. The Way Through Doors
  248. The Whore's Child: And Other Stories
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  256. To Skin a Cat
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  260. Trespass (Vintage)
  261. Trouble: Stories
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  263. Unaccustomed Earth
  264. Undiscovered Gyrl
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  266. Visible Spirits
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  269. When the World Was Steady
  270. Where I'm Calling from: New and Selected Stories
  271. Whores on the Hill
  272. Wildlife
  273. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: Stories
  274. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories: And Other Stories
  275. You Don't Love Me Yet
  276. Young Hearts Crying
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Bright Lights, Big City (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Jay Mcinerney

Bright Lights, Big City (Vintage Contemporaries) Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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

Product Details

ISBN:
9780394726410
Author:
McInerney, Jay
Publisher:
Vintage Contemporaries
Author:
McInerney, Jay
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
New york (state)
Subject:
Young men
Subject:
Young men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Subject:
Movie novels.
Subject:
Black humor
Subject:
Black humor (Literature)
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)
Series Volume:
no. 5
Publication Date:
August 1984
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
182
Dimensions:
800x524x53 50

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