How It Ended
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Publisher Description
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'Urban tales of sex, sell-outs, divisions and divorces' - Harper's Bazaar
'Jay McInerney is the type of American novelist to whom English readers instinctively warm ... How It Ended is the work of a fine writer on the top of his form' - Sunday Telegraph
'McInerney rarely lets the reader down and the buzz you get from reading How It Ended will last longer than your usual fix' - Tatler
'Sharp, spare, exquisitely observed writing' - Daily Mail
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Sex, excess and urban paranoia... this collection of short stories returns to hallmark McInerney territory
Discover a world of sex, excess and urban paranoia where worlds collide, relationships fragment and the dark underbelly of the American dream is exposed. A transgender prostitute accidentally propositions his own father. A senator's serial infidelities leave him in hot water. And two young lovers spend Christmas together high on different drugs.
McInerney's characters struggle together in a shifting world where old certainties dissolve and nobody can be sure of where they stand.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
These 26 stories some new, some previously published go back as many years and take readers to a time when the stock market was bullish and a young writer made his name with an ingeniously packaged first novel that perfectly captured a brief moment in time. In this collection, we become reacquainted with the nameless night-crawling narrator of Bright Lights, Big City; with Alison Poole, the party girl of Story of My Life (and who McInerney has said was based on John Edwards's former mistress Rielle Hunter); and Collin McNab, a would-be screenwriter who enjoys a tortuous relationship with his model girlfriend. We also meet new characters, among them a novice screenwriter who learns to play the Hollywood game a little too well, a woman who contemplates sleeping with an old flame on the eve of his wedding, and, in the title story, a drug dealer whose good luck streak repulses the lawyer to whom he confides his tale. While nobody can channel urban strivers and their shallow pursuits as well as McInerney, after a while, the stories all tend to blur together with a depressing predictability.
