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He manages to accomplish this through the help of his use of cocaine, to which he is powerfully addicted. Bright lights, big city narrates a few disastrous days in the life of an aspiring young writer in the swirling, madcap world of young, upwardly mobile manhattan in the 1980s. For decades, upwardly mobile young white people like mcinerneys narrator had been fleeing to the suburbs, where john updikes and john cheevers protagonists lived, leaving the five boroughs a cauldron of poverty, crime, and ethnic unrest. The books narrator, plagued by a failed marriage and an unnamed sense of loss and guilt, watches helplessly from the distance of a cocaineinduced haze as he proceeds to. Ransom, story of my life, brightness falls, the last of the savages, model behaviour and the good life, two short story.
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