In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights， Big City. Alison Poole， twenty going on 40，000， is a budding actress already fatally well versed in hopping the clubs， shopping Chanel falling in and out of， lust， and abusing other people s credit cards. As Alison races toward emotional breakdown， McInerney gives us a hilarious yet oddly touching portrait of a postmodern Holly Golightly coming to terms with a world in which everything is permitted and nothing really matters.From the Trade Paperback edition.