Initially hopeful that she will return someday, the protagonist eventually resorts to searching for her at a fashion event, publicly humiliating himself while failing to garner more attention from her than a brief look. After flying out to Paris for Fashion Week, she calls the protagonist to inform him that she is leaving him for another man and to pursue her career. The two had met in Kansas City the protagonist moves with her to New York City, where she begins a modeling career that quickly takes off. His wife, Amanda, recently left him, and he copes with this by pretending nothing happened and telling no one that she is gone. By night, he is a cocaine-using party-goer seeking to lose himself in the hedonism of the 1980s yuppie party scene, often going to a nightclub called Heartbreak. The story's protagonist is a 24-year-old writer who works as a fact checker for a highbrow magazine for which he had once hoped to write. The novel is written in the second person, an unusual narrative method in English language fiction. It is written about a character's time spent caught up in, and notably escaping from, the mid-1980s New York City fast lane. Bright Lights, Big City is a novel by American author Jay McInerney, published by Vintage Books on August 12, 1984.
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