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Alternatives to Sexby Stephen McCauleyISBN 0743453190 (0-7434-5319-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Easy Way Outby Stephen McCauleyISBN 186207710X (1-86207-710-X)
Softcover, Granta Books
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Man of My Dreamsby Stephen McCauleyISBN 0811813967 (0-8118-1396-7)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man of My Dreams'Book summary:Forty celebrated writers make Man of My Dreams an inspirational, bittersweet, and laugh-out-loud celebration. Whether your strong suit is loving, lusting, loathing, or leaving, you won't be able to resist the outrageous wit and surprising insights of this irreverent anthology about gay relationships. [via]
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The Man of the Houseby Stephen McCauleyISBN 1857026195 (1-85702-619-5)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man of the House'Book summary:Obsessing over a broken relationship and the need to find himself, adult ed teacher Clyde and his aimless roommate find their lives turned upside down by single mother Louise Morris and a neurotic stray dog. 35,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
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- The Man of the House: ISBN 1857027027 (1-85702-702-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - The Man of the House: ISBN 0671002252 (0-671-00225-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Man of the House: ISBN 0684810530 (0-684-81053-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Man of the House: ISBN 1857026195 (1-85702-619-5)
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- The Man of the House: ISBN 1857027027 (1-85702-702-7)
The Object of My Affectionby Stephen McCauleyISBN 1841150142 (1-84115-014-2)
Softcover, Fourth Estate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Object of My Affection'Book summary:It's no mistake that Stephen McCauley's The Object of My Affection ends at a carnival, for the book is, shockingly enough, not about ballroom dancing or Jennifer Aniston's hair, but rather a funny, bittersweet rumination on the thrill rides we endure and the trick mirrors through which we peer, all in the name of relationships.
George is a gay kindergarten teacher, holding a torch of the inextinguishable variety for his not-worth-it ex-boyfriend. Nina is a pregnant "almost-psychologist" feminist with a nail-polish obsession and an overbearing boyfriend. The focus of the novel is certainly on the relationship between these two, but McCauley also brings an entire fictional ensemble to life, richly nuanced with quirky humor. After a night utterly devoid of sleep, romance, or even physical comfort on a stranger's futon, George decides to cut his losses and leave in the middle of the night, silently wondering about his generation's aversion to mattresses: "I've never trusted people who feel compelled to replace them with uncomfortable, expensive substitutes." As he leaves, his blind date caps off the evening with some unsolicited dietary advice, advising him that he should really cut down on dairy. "Thanks," George deadpans. "I've been meaning to eliminate it from my diet. This should give me the extra push."
The Object of My Affection gets you to care about this screwed-up lot of characters as they attempt to force the square peg of life-as-it-is-wished into the round hole of life-as-it-is. It offers no pat resolutions but rather an overall sense of hope, made all the more believable by the fact that the author has not frantically tried to tie up every single loose end. Instead, George, Nina, and those who touch them manage to push off from their unreasonably idealistic visions of the future and anchor, albeit tenuously, to the blessings of the present, resolved to remain standing amidst the forces that move them, as McCauley writes, "as inevitable as death and much stronger than love." --Bob Michaels [via]
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- The Object of My Affection: ISBN 185702785X (1-85702-785-X)
Softcover, Zondervan - The Object of My Affection: ISBN 0671020668 (0-671-02066-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Object of My Affection: ISBN 0671743503 (0-671-74350-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books - The Object of My Affection: ISBN 067170284X (0-671-70284-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Object of My Affection: ISBN 0333449487 (0-333-44948-7)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan - The Object of My Affection: ISBN 0671618407 (0-671-61840-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - The Object of My Affection: ISBN 0671649949 (0-671-64994-9)
Hardcover, Pocket Books - Object of My Affection: ISBN 1841150142 (1-84115-014-2)
Softcover, Fourth Estate
- The Object of My Affection: ISBN 185702785X (1-85702-785-X)
True Enoughby Stephen McCauleyISBN 1862076308 (1-86207-630-8)
Softcover, Granta Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'True Enough'Book summary:New York writer Desmond Sullivan doesn't believe in marriage. His five happy years with his lover Russell haven't fundamentally challenged Desmond's conviction that, at best, true love is "an acute form of tolerance." He's sexually restless, and looking forward to his four-month teaching stint in Boston as an attempt to regain some of his own identity and try to complete the biography he's been writing. Jane Cody, a Boston public television producer, is similarly disenchanted with her marriage to a clumsy, kindly professor of English. Lately, Jane has been meeting her ex-husband Dale for drinks and coffee, although she's well aware that he's a jerk. With so much going wrong in her life, it strikes Jane that she and Desmond could collaborate on a series of documentaries, salvaging both of their foundering work lives. A page-turner, not by virtue of its plot, but because of Stephen McCauley's utterly engaging narrative voice, True Enough reprises some of the themes of his earlier novel, The Object of My Affection. It also has the virtues of a good Woody Allen film: Great comic lines and brilliant social observation among a small circle of successful friends. And like so much of Allen's work, the subject is married love: Fidelity and betrayal in their many guises. A funny, well-developed novel with surprising emotional depth. --Regina Marler [via]
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