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Essay Archive - Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City: You are the Coma Baby
Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City: You are the Coma Baby
The novel Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney relates the tale of a
young man working for a prominent newspaper in Manhattan by day, while visiting
many bars and nightclubs during the night. He manages to accomplish this
through the help of his use of cocaine, to which he is powerfully addicted.
Throughout the novel McInerney employs the use of the Coma Baby, a current story
in the New York Post, a local tabloid, as a symbolic representation of the main
character. The Coma Baby has been residing in its mother's womb after the
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