Finished Fr 8/7/20
I finished the novel, not the short stories. The novel is 178 pages.
The novel concerns a celebrity journalist, Connor McKnight and his long-time girlfriend and super-model, Philomena. She's leaving him for a famous actor and Connor seems unable to accept the fact.
From BookPage:
"...allows McInerney to return to the themes and stylistics of his earlier work. He overlays the vodka-doused story of Connor with cheeky pokes at popular culture, using his sardonic pen to skewer the self-anointed beautiful people, revenge-seeking book reviewers, and brash magazine editors. McInerney is sly, mischievous, and sometimes downright nasty as he writes his most trenchant social critique since Story of My Life."
From the book's page at Amazon:
"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."
A funny passage:
"Don't you mean, 'The Cocteau Twins'?
"No, I mean 'The Simon Twins'- Carly and Paul...Chick Music!"
It was an easy, breezy read and could be read in a couple of settings. I'll leave the book out and maybe randomly hit the short stories.
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