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Designed by M. Kristen Bearse
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2009 by Bright Lights, Big City, Inc.
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by
Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York,
and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Knopf, Borzoi Books and the colophon are
registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The following stories originally appeared in book form in Model Behavior:
A Novel and Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998): “The Business,”
“Con Doctor,” “Getting in Touch with Lonnie,” “How It Ended,” “The Queen
and I,” “Reunion” and “Smoke.” These stories, along with “My Public Service,”
“Simple Gifts” and “Third Party,” were subsequently published in Great Britain
in the collection How It Ended (London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2000).
Some stories were previously published in the following: “Putting Daisy Down”
in The Guardian Literary Supplement, “The Madonna of Turkey Season” in Image
(Dublin), “The Last Bachelor” in Playboy and “Everything Is Lost” in
The Sunday Times Magazine (London).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McInerney Jay.
How it ended : new and collected stories / by Jay McInerney. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-27152-5
I. Title.
PS3563.C3694H69 2009 813′.54—dc22 2008053518
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the
product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to
actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
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