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Title: Model Behavior by JAY MCINERNEY ISBN: 0-679-74953-5 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 14 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.11 (36 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: "Bright Lights" for the nineties
Comment: As it's been stated before, Jay McInerney's "Model Behavior" is basically his own "Bright Lights, Big City" updated for the late nineties. The stories are similar -- a young professional in the New York City publishing business is unable to cope with the absence of his estranged model girlfriend. Fortunately, the story was good enough the first time around so that an updated version is still enjoyable. McInerney has a great ear for dialogue (and doesn't feel compelled to drop names as much as his best-known contemporary, Bret Easton Ellis), and Connor McKnight, the lead character in the story, has a hilarious, world-weary personality. As a magazine writer, Connor has interviewed countless celebrities, and his frustration of shallow movie stars and supermodels had me laughing out loud. The subplot involving Connor's e-mail stalker, however, gave the book a creepy realism. There are plenty of interesting characters to keep this story entertaining, and even though it is a story we've all read before, it's fairly short (less than 200 pages). Recommended for McInerney fans. A lack of originality keeps it from getting four stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: Clever Storytelling!
Comment: I picked up the book to read on a flight to New York. I didn't know anything about the author or the story, I just picked it based on it's cover. (Not this one, it has a plain white t-shirt on a hanger against a blue background) By the end of the flight I had finished it! I love this book!
McInerney tells you a story of a writer named Connor McKnight, the relationships between his friends and his former girlfriend who leaves him by telling him she's going on a shoot. Yup! A relationship with a model. A writer and a model, how clique right! It's more than you think. While telling you his story you come to realize how sad and completely empty this man is. But only by choice. He is surrounded by friends who trust him and love him but he still pins for his ex-girlfriend Philomena. McInerney's writing is exceptionally charming because the way he describes events and emotions include every detail of the situations. A book by one of his writer friends Jeremy Green, 'Walled In', even tells their story, Jeremy and Connor's combined. Their story inside the narration. A delightful coincidence!
This book shows McInerney's sharp and quick witted observation of the society we live in. If he can do this, he can write on just about anything!
Also recommended: THE LOSERS' CLUB by Richard Perez
Rating: 4
Summary: short stories are better than novella
Comment: If you like the style of McInerney, then I wouldn't discourage anyone from buying the paperback or a used version of this book. I would just skip the title and read the short stories. Some of them are up there with Carver!
-Borden Burns
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Title: Brightness Falls by Jay McInerney ISBN: 0679745327 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 31 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Story of My Life by Jay McInerney ISBN: 0679722572 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney ISBN: 0394726413 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 August, 1984 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Last of the Savages by Jay McInerney ISBN: 0679749527 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Bacchus and Me : Adventures in the Wine Cellar by JAY MCINERNEY ISBN: 037571362X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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