Bright Lights, Big City. National Review | May 27, 1988| | COPYRIGHT 1988 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Bright Light, Big City

I READ ABOUT thirty pages of Bright Lights, Big City before the rightful owner of that particular copy of Jay McInerney's novel reclaimed it, and I never felt impelled to pursue the matter. It seemed to me like a reasonably competent piece of cheeky postgraduate writing: Holden Caulfield Gets Older But Doesn't Grow Up, yuppie subdivision, with lots of coke-snorting and girl-chasing, but nobody--least of all the novelist--concerned with where the money for this lifestyle was coming from. There were some fairly clever verbal tricks and, had I ...

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