Bright Lights, Big City - Couverture souple

McInerney, Jay

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0747589208 ISBN 13 : 9780747589204

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007

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Bright Lights, Big City You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. So begins our hero's trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrow's hangover may be caused by more than simple excess. This is a classic 80s novel. Full description

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Revue de presse :

"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

Quatri�me de couverture :

New York, ann�es 80. Un gar�on de vingt-quatre ans tente d'oublier son chagrin et sa d�ception (sa femme vient de le quitter) � l'aide de diverses m�thodes �prouv�es : l'�chec professionnel, la dope, les bo�tes. Et la litt�rature. Entre un d�fil� de haute couture, une f�te rat�e et une orgie de coke dans les toilettes de l'Odeon, il lui reste peu de temps pour rassembler ses esprits. Heureusement, le Destin veille au grain...

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