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Bright Lights, Big City is Jay McInerney's masterpiece about alienation and grief. The plot concerns Michael, a young professional in New York. McInerney's novel set the standard for discussing the phenomenon of yuppie despair and the hollowness of a purely materialistic, drug-fueled life. Along with books like American Psycho and films like Wall Street, the book tackled the apparent soullessness of the 80s. Michael, the protagonist, works in at a famous literary establishment, an unnamed magazine that has instant name recognition with most everyone he meets.