Along with Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York and Bret Easton Ellis’s Less than Zero, Jay McInerney’s first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, explores and details the frenetic club life and drug scene of mid-1980s New York. Bright Lights, Big… Read More ›
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Analysis of Alice McDermott’s At Weddings and Wakes
Alice McDermott’s third novel, At Weddings and Wakes, is set in the early 1960s, soon after the assassination of President Kennedy. It is the story of the four Irish Catholic Towne sisters and their complicated relationship with their “Momma,” as… Read More ›
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