Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
 You
are a painfully dated 1984 novel by Jay McInerney. You are about
the coke-fuelled nightlife of emotionally dead New York fact
checkers.
You inspire an embarrassingly moronic 1988 movie starring
MIchael J Fox (You can at least be thankful you are not Doc
Hollywood!).
You are written in the rare and annoying second-person present
narrative form.
Fox comes of age in this grim descent into yuppie hell. As a
nice country boy hypnotized by the glitter of the Big Apple, he
experiences life in the fast lane, sweats bullets, falls in with
the cocaine crowd, and almost self-destructs.
While his life fails apart, Kiefer Sutherland, as his
coke-sniffing pal, Dianne Wiest, as his dying mother, and Jason
Robards, as his pickled boss, all lend excellent support, but it's
a newly matured Mr. Fox who makes this movie seem like Oz
photographed through the bottom of a double vodka martini.
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