Bright Lights, Big City | Characters
Although Mclnerney asserts that his first novel is "fiction," the story focuses on the adventures of a young man much like Mclnerney, who works in the fact verification department of a prestigious New York City magazine and mourns an untimely divorce from his fashion-model wife. In reference to autobiographical writing, Mclnerney once commented that he "writes from personal experiences and had lived in Manhattan for two years." Thus, the unusual, second-person (you) narrator of Bright Lights, Big City, as many critics suggest, appears to be the voice of Mclnerney himself, used as...
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