The Man of the House

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		The Man of the House
		The Man of the House

基本信息·出版社：Granta Books
·页码：288 页
·出版日期：2006年07月
·ISBN：1862079005
·International Standard Book Number：1862079005
·条形码：9781862079007
·EAN：9781862079007
·版本：New edition
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语

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Thirty-five-year-old Clyde Carmichael spends too much time at things that make him miserable: teaching at a posh but flaky adult learning centre; devouring forgettable celebrity biographies; and obsessing about his ex-lover, Gordon. Clyde's other chief pursuit is dodging his family - his maddeningly insecure sister and his irascible father, who may or may not be at death's door. In fact, Clyde's in danger of becoming as aimless as Marcus, his handsome (and unswervingly straight) roommate, who's spent ten years on one dissertation and far too many fizzled relationships. Enter Louise Morris: Clyde's old friend and Marcus's onetime lover is a restless writer and single mother, who shows up with her son, Ben, and a neurotic dog in tow. The looming question of Ben's paternity nudges Clyde back into the orbit of his own father - and propels our hero into the kind of bittersweet emotional terrain that McCauley has made entirely his own.
作者简介 Stephen McCauley is the author of Alternatives to Sex, The Object of My Affection, made into a film starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, True Enough, and >i>The Easy Way Out, all available from Granta Books. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
媒体推荐 'McCauley's particular skill lies in his grasp of the bonds that link straights and gays in the maze of life's daily dealings' Time 'The secret love child of Edith Wharton and Woody Allen' New York Times 'Like all great masters of comedy, McCauley has a deadly serious eye on the human predicament. For my money, his prose is some of the best around - graceful and sturdy and blessedly free from pretension' Armistead Maupin 'McCauley's wry takes on relationships are literary Toblerone: dark, rich, pointed and slightly nutty' Details

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