How It Ended

  Composed by Creative Graphics

  Allentown, Pennsylvania

  Printed and bound by Berryville Graphics

  Berryville, Virginia

  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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