Book Review

A Model Summer (2007)

Details Release Date: Apr 10, 2007; Writer: Paulina Porizkova; Genre: Fiction; Publisher: Hyperion

A modeling agency discovers bookish 15-year-old Swede Jirina and whisks her to Paris in Paulina Porizkova's A Model Summer. Think Top Model on coke: lots of coke, as well as booze, casting-couch sex, devious rivals — and one dreamy photographer.

Celebrity Cameos
Only veiled ones, like a model-dating rocker who wears ''ubiquitous glittery scarves.''

Bottom Line
Yes, supermodels can write. Porizkova delivers a dizzyingly detailed and wrenching tale of innocence lost. A-

Originally posted Apr 06, 2007 Published in issue #929 Apr 13, 2007 Order article reprints

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