Half Crazy
By: J.M. McDonell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: City and town life -- Fiction.; Novelists -- Fiction.; Models (Persons) -- Fiction.; Friendship -- Fiction.; Gay men -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Description: Half Crazy is Miranda's story. An incandescently beautiful nineteen-year-old with long blond hair, legs that go on forever, and silver-blue eyes that have already seen far too much, she sets the jaded New York modeling world on fire.

David, Miranda's neighbor, remembers every detail of her journey through love and loss, sex and betrayal, starting with the moment she arrives in Manhattan from Arkansas on a sweltering August afternoon, carrying a plastic suitcase and followed by a prancing white dog. Miranda's instant high-profile success puts her in the fast lane.

She and David whirl from Sutton Place dinners with media moguls to after-hours clubs with the latest literary darlings to sleek private jets filled with sleek people heading for the Caribbean.

But they always return to their lonely Hell's Kitchen building, owned by a sociopath who wants Miranda as soon as he sees her. He, of course, is not the only one. There's the famous and famously spoiled young actor; the baseball pitcher with the golden arm; and the brilliant writer in the white linen suit whose boyishness belies a Machiavellian mind. And David himself, finally at peace with being gay, is drawn to a woman for the first time in his life.

The pace is wild, it's all too good to be true, it can't last - and it doesn't. In a single vicious act, one of these men destroys Miranda's beauty and her career, giving another of them the chance to rescue her - or so it would seem.