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Bright Lights, Big City is a brilliant and moving work–unique, refreshing, imaginatively powerful and authentically conceived."
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The New York Times "
Bright Lights, Big City defined, and even determined, the mood of this whole town."
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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."
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Chicago Tribune "Each generation needs its Manhattan novel, and many ache to write it. But it was McInerney who succeeded."
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The New York Times Book Review