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Jay McInerney’s first novel, Bright Lights, Big City, helped bring about a revolution in contemporary fiction in trade paperback. But more importantly, its publication brought us a major writer of great literary talent and incisive perception.In his latest novel, Model Behavior, McInerney offers us the portrait of a doubting devotee of the city where vocation, career, and ambition (which only occassionally coincide) run head-on with friendship and love—or merely desire.
We see Conor McKnight’s well-earned ennui fast becoming anxiety as he tries to protect himself from the harrowing fate that unfolds before his bleary eyes. McInerney is at the peak of his craft in what is sure to become a classic at the end of the century. Author's NotesI can’t exactly remember the genesis of Model Behavior, although I would say at this distance that it was an attempt to reclaim the material of my youth and write one more book about an irresponsible post-adolescent who has yet to sign the social contract.
This may have been inspired by the fact that I had recently become a father and I was nervous about it. I think the book was prescient in at least one regard, which is its anticipation of the epidemic of celebrity journalism, its protagonist being one of those poor hacks who has to write mostly fawning profiles of movie and television stars.
I guess some people might think of this as a dream job but Collin McNab is smart enough and ambitious enough to want more. He lives with, and loves, a woman who is poised at the portal of entry into the glittering world of which he writes, a model he met in Japan, with whom he moved to New York. I’d had a wife and a long term girlfriend who were models, so I’d done a lot of observing of that particular world.Another thing I can’t remember is whose decision it was to include seven short stories with Model Behavior, but that’s what we did in the hardcover edition. In fact I think Model Behavior is properly categorized as a novella rather than a novel, so publishing it with additional stories made sense. What got confusing was that some of my foreign publishers including Bloomsbury, my British publishers, wanted to publish the novel and the novella separately. I wrote three more stories to flesh out the short story collection and this has resulted in some confusion.
I called that book, which was not published in the US, How it Ended, a title I recycled when I published my collected stories in the States in 2009.
'A Great Gatsby for the end of the century.' -The Baltimore Sun 'Swift and amusing. An astute social observer of the cruelties of modern New York, McInerney is also capable of great tenderness.' -The Boston Globe Jay McInerney returns to the restless urban landscape of Manhattan and offers us a glimpse of a devotee of the city whose faith is severely tested. Connor McKnight's ennui is fast turning into anxiety as he struggles to keep his life intact. He has temporarily shelved his Akira Kurosawa biography in pursuit of an interview with elusive young actor Chip Ralston to secure his job at CiaoBella! Connor's model girlfriend has left him, and his brilliant sister is wasting away in anorexic seclusion.
Ridden with angst and heartache, Connor can't even turn to his best friend, a brooding fiction writer who has balanced his sanity on the publication of a new story collection and the return of his Irish terrier. He is left to seek refuge in a vodka bottle, and consolation from a beautiful stripper at an upscale topless club, only to find that nothing can protect him from the harrowing fate that unfolds before his bleary eyes.
Together with seven stories that 'remind one of. Fitzgerald and Hemingway' (The New York Times Book Review), Model Behavior once again demonstrates McInerney's keen wit, deft portraiture, and lively skill with language. 'The careful observation of that downward spiral is brightened by McInerney's facility with the bon mot and his fondness for skewering the pretensions of the nouveau hip.' -The Miami Herald 'Very funny, and full of the rakish, old-fashioned literary elegance that McInerney always manages to mix into the slangy idioms of his characters.' -The New York Review of Books From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more.Rating:(not yet rated)Subjects.More like this.
'A Great Gatsby for the end of the century.' -The Baltimore Sun 'Swift and amusing.
An astute social observer of the cruelties of modern New York, McInerney is also capable of great tenderness.' -The Boston Globe Jay McInerney returns to the restless urban landscape of Manhattan and offers us a glimpse of a devotee of the city whose faith is severely tested. Connor McKnight's ennui is fast turning into anxiety as he struggles to keep his life intact. He has temporarily shelved his Akira Kurosawa biography in pursuit of an interview with elusive young actor Chip Ralston to secure his job at CiaoBella!
Connor's model girlfriend has left him, and his brilliant sister is wasting away in anorexic seclusion. Ridden with angst and heartache, Connor can't even turn to his best friend, a brooding fiction writer who has balanced his sanity on the publication of a new story collection and the return of his Irish terrier.
He is left to seek refuge in a vodka bottle, and consolation from a beautiful stripper at an upscale topless club, only to find that nothing can protect him from the harrowing fate that unfolds before his bleary eyes. Together with seven stories that 'remind one of. Fitzgerald and Hemingway' (The New York Times Book Review), Model Behavior once again demonstrates McInerney's keen wit, deft portraiture, and lively skill with language. 'The careful observation of that downward spiral is brightened by McInerney's facility with the bon mot and his fondness for skewering the pretensions of the nouveau hip.' -The Miami Herald 'Very funny, and full of the rakish, old-fashioned literary elegance that McInerney always manages to mix into the slangy idioms of his characters.' -The New York Review of Books From the Trade Paperback edition.