Model Behavior: A Novel and 7 Stories - Tapa dura

Seven pieces of short fiction accompany the title novel about celebrity journalist Connor McKnight, who is forced to confront a suddenly remote, longtime girlfriend, anxieties about his life and career, and confusion over his future. By the author of Bright Lights, Big City. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

vels over the past fourteen years, Jay McInerney has demonstrated time and again "his talent for capturing the nuances and idiosyncrasies of our culture" (San Francisco Chronicle), and nowhere is this more apparent than in Model Behavior, in which he returns to the locale of Bright Lights, Big City, Story of My Life, and Brightness Falls: the restless isle of Manhattan, where neither wishes nor even dreams ever sleep.

Connor McKnight--former acolyte of film, Zen and Japanese literature--is not unaware that these  avocations are wildly remote from his present occupation (fledgling celebrity journalist). Moreover, his longtime girlfriend, the fashion model Philomena, suddenly seems curiously remote herself--and soon enough appears to have decamped, avec diaphragm, for the other coast. Then there's the sister with whom he shared a flamboyantly addled childhood, and who now matches her brilliance for theoretical abstraction with a compassion for world sufferin