 The novel is written in the second person, an unusual narrative method in English language fiction.The story's narrator is a 24-year-old writer who works as a fact checker for a highbrow magazine for which he had once hoped to write.By night, he is a cocaine-using party-goer seeking to lose himself in the hedonism of the 1980s yuppie party scene, often going to a nightclub called "Heartbreak".