In a message dated 7/29/03 3:37:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, velaires@earthlink.net writes:

I always got the sense that it was that character talking to himself in his
own mind, ie second-person omniscient. I loved that book.

sh

I too loved the book, but after awhile I got tired of the 2nd person narrator. I interpreted the book (and the narrator) as trying to capture the experiences of many young people coming to NYC in the 1980s and getting swept up in the fast lane.

Tom
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Discs I'm listening to at work:
John Zorn -- Filmworks XIV
Eleni Madell -- Country for True Lovers
Richard Thompson -- Ducknapped!