The books are a dutifully documented, tenderhearted take on The Way Manhattan’s Elite Live Now. But Bright, Precious Days isn’t a sequel to Bright Lights, Big City - it’s the completion of what we might call McInerney’s Manhattan trilogy, which includes Brightness Falls (1992) and The Good Life (2006).
The new cover retains the same point of view, deletes the hipster, keeps the Odeon sign, and substitutes the twin towers with what replaced the buildings in the late 2000s while the new tower was being planned: those klieg lights that shot powerful beams of light into the sky from the bases where the buildings once stood. That’s the one, if you remember, with the hipster staring at the neon sign of Tribeca’s Odeon restaurant in the foreground with the World Trade Center towers gleaming in the distance. THE COVER OF JAY MCINERNEY’S BRIGHT, PRECIOUS DAYS reprises the picture on the cover of his first novel, Bright Lights, Big City (1984).
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