Model Behavior - Paperback

by Jay McInerney (Author)

From the author of Bright Lights, Big City comes an incisive and compelling novel that returns to the restless isle of Manhattan, where neither wishes nor even dreams ever sleep.

"Smart, funny, sexy, and well observed." --Esquire

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.

This edition contains only the novel Model Behavior, and not the additional seven stories which were published in the original hardcover.

Front Jacket

A Great Gatsby for the end of the century. -- "The Baltimore Sun
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.
This edition contains only the novel Model Behavior, and not the additional seven stories which were published in the original hardcover.

Author Biography

Jay McInerney lives in New York and Williamson County, Tennessee.