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Bright lights, big city / a novel by Jay McInerney.

LIBRA PS3563.C3694 B7 1984
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LIBRA - Special PS3563.C3694 B7 1984
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LIBRA - Special PS3563.C3694 B7 1984 copy 2
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Van Pelt Library PS3563.C3694 B7 1984
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
McInerney, Jay
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Genre:
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
McInerney, Jay (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
182 pages ; 21 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 1984.
Summary:
Jay McInerney's bestselling masterpiece is now a United Artists film starring one of the hottest young actors working today, Michael J. Fox. A Manhattan yuppie seems to have it all: a successful model for a wife, a job at a prestigious magazine, and plenty of wild friends. But the lights go out, and in one week his life takes a drastic plunge downward.
Contents:
It's Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are? 1
The Department of Factual Verification 11
The Utility of Fiction 36
A Womb With a View 54
Les Jeux Sont Faits 69
Coma Baby Lives! 80
Pygmies, Ferrets and Dog Chow 99
O Couture! 119
Linguine and Sympathy 128
Sometimes a Vague Notion 145
The Night Shift 160
How It's Going 170.
Notes:
"A Vintage original"--T.p. verso.
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 signed by the author.
ISBN:
0394726413
OCLC:
10532536

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