Stephen McCauley, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-81054-6
However insightful, this fourth novel (following The Man of the House) dissecting the self-centered, shallow social artifice and snobbery of the great American middle class fails—by a whisper—to achieve the exquisitely fine-edged...
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Stephen McCauley, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (289p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2473-4
McCauley's latest blunt and funny novel lays bare the inner life and obsessive-compulsive behavior of William Collins, a gay 40-something Boston realtor who struggles to give up trolling the Internet for impersonal sexual liaisons. Taking stock...
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Stephen McCauley, Author Simon & Schuster 25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2475-8
Narrator Richard and his partner, Conrad, are a well-adjusted gay couple living in Boston at “the end of the American Century” in McCauley’s adroit latest (after Alternatives to Sex). They have an understanding that allows for the occasional...
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Stephen McCauley, Author Washington Square Press $15 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-00225-1
An underachieving gay man tries to come to grips with his homophobic father and his disaffected friends in McCauley's rueful comedy. (Nov.)
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Stephen McCauley, Author Washington Square Press $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-64994-4
This is the gently comic story of two insecure young people who share a Brooklyn apartment: a gay man and a pregnant woman who are both on the brink of financial and emotional disaster. PW found the first novel ``leisurely and meandering,'' its...
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Stephen McCauley, Author Simon & Schuster $19.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70818-4
McCauley's The Object of My Affection was among the highly praised first novels of the 1980s. This beautifully written, heartbreaking book lacks the earlier novel's magnetism and spark, but is an eloquent depiction of the compromises lovers and...
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Stephen McCauley, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-81053-9
Two-thirds of the way through McCauley's dolorous third novel, a novelist sighs and says of her earlier work, ``So light and optimistic... I can't write that way any more.'' It seems that McCauley-whose first book was the sprightly and disarming The
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Stephen McCauley. Flatiron, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-12243-8
The wry, bittersweet seventh novel by McCauley (The Object of My Affection) transports its hero into the life that might have been his if things had turned out differently. Fifty-something David Hedges, who makes an adequate living in San Francisco...
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Stephen McCauley, Author, Jane Rosenman, Editor, Robert Thurman, Author Washington Square Press $19.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-671-78738-7
This heartbreaking book eloquently depicts the compromises that lovers and families make to keep relationships alive. (July)
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Stephen McCauley. Holt, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-29679-5
In McCauley’s entertaining if overlong family saga (after My Ex-Life), a 30-something Chicago professor reckons with personal drama amid a professional crisis. Cecily, the subject of a Title IX case involving a student named Lee, receives an...
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