Saved from a dumpster, headed out in my "Something for everyone" bookbox!

Headed out into the world via my Potluck Bookbox, happy travels little book!

Caught from Ctychic's Potluck Bookbox. This is one of those books I have heard of and always wanted to read it.

Book Description: This is the debut novel originally published in 1984. It is written about a character's time spent caught up in, and notably escaping from, the mid-1980s New York City fast lane. It is one of the few well-known English-language novels written in the second person, and its main character is unnamed. He is a writer who, by day, works as a fact checker for a high-brow magazine—likely based on Harpers or The New Yorker, where McInerney himself once worked as a fact checker—for which he had once hoped to write. By night, he is a party-goer, a cocaine user, seeking to lose himself in the hedonism of the 1980s yuppie party scene. His wife, Amanda, recently left him and he copes with this by pretending nothing happened and telling no one that she's gone. Initially hopeful that she will return someday, he eventually resorts to searching for her at a fashion event. He obsesses over every item she owned in his apartment, every modeling photo and every club she visited, even repeatedly visiting a mannequin based on her. Also, his partying is affecting his work and he appears to be on the verge of getting fired by his temperamental boss.

The novel would go on to be the source material for the 1988 film Bright Lights, Big City, which was also written by McInerney.

My Review: This book was different. It's hard to describe, the main character is never named, which I didn't notice until reading the description on Wikipedia! It reminded me of The Catcher in the Rye, but not as well executed. I loved Catcher in the Rye, but this one is just lacking something that would have made it great.

Info on Jay McInerney

Putting this book into Booklady331's ABC Bookbox.

Going on a road trip and this looked like just the right book to take along. Grabbed from Booklady331's ABC book box.

Added to the I've Been Everywhere Book Box. (City)

Chosen from "I've Been Everywhere" bookbox. I had wanted to read this book years ago and never did. I now have the chance.

A very good book, especially when you consider the author's young age when it was written. I wish I had read it when it first came out, it seems so much has changed since then, but I enjoyed this book very much.

Book released into the ABC Bookbox.

Thanks! Enjoy the book!

This book returned in the ABC Bookbox, this is not my normal type of reading material but I will give it a try before setting it free to continue it's travels. Thanks for including it!

Released into the ABC bookbox, happy travels!

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