by Jay McInerney · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747542339
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«Model Behaviour» is Jay McInerney's satirical novel, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Connor McKnight watches his girlfriend Philomena leave for California for a supposed fashion feature and fears she won't return. His friend Jeremy Green deals with the kidnapping of his dog; his sister Brook, a math genius, frets over world crises. Connor tries to interview Chip Ralston and meets Pallas, a dancer with a heart of gold.
Novel by the author of «Bright Lights, Big City», originally published in 1998; this edition appeared on April 23, 1999.
For the general public, especially readers of contemporary fiction and satirical humor.
John Barrett "Jay" McInerney Jr. is an American novelist, screenwriter, editor, and columnist. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, and The Last of the Savages. He edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices, wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City, and co-wrote the screenplay for the television film Gia, which starred Angelina Jolie. He was the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine, and his essays on wine have been collected in Bacchus & Me (2000) and A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006). His most recent novel is titled See You on the Other Side, published in 2026. From April 2010 he was a wine columnist for The Wall Street Journal. In 2009, he published a book of short stories that spanned his entire career, titled How It Ended, which was named one of the 10 best books of the year by Janet Maslin of The New York Times.
