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True Enough
Stephen Mccauley
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Description for True Enough
Paperback. When Jane and Desmond meet in Boston and join forces to create a series of TV documentaries on the elusive singer Pauline Anderton, they embark on a journey of self-discovery in which they learn more about their own secrets and lies than they ever wanted to know. Num Pages: 322 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
Jane Cody keeps lists. After all, how else would she keep track of her life? - her job producing a Boston TV show; her amiable but frankly dull second husband; and her precocious six-year-old son who 'doesn't do small talk' but loves to bake. And as if that weren't enough, she has an acid-tongued mother-in-law living in her barn, an arthritic malamute lodger to walk and a dangerously seductive ex-husband on the scene ... In New York, Desmond Sullivan is fretting that his five-year relationship with smart, sweet Russell is too monogamous and settled. Perhaps a spell as writer-in-residence at ... Read more
Jane Cody keeps lists. After all, how else would she keep track of her life? - her job producing a Boston TV show; her amiable but frankly dull second husband; and her precocious six-year-old son who 'doesn't do small talk' but loves to bake. And as if that weren't enough, she has an acid-tongued mother-in-law living in her barn, an arthritic malamute lodger to walk and a dangerously seductive ex-husband on the scene ... In New York, Desmond Sullivan is fretting that his five-year relationship with smart, sweet Russell is too monogamous and settled. Perhaps a spell as writer-in-residence at ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
322
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781862079038
SKU
V9781862079038
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About Stephen Mccauley
Stephen McCauley is the author of Alternatives to Sex, The Object of My Affection, made into a film starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, The Man of the House, and The Easy Way Out, all available from Granta Books. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Reviews for True Enough
Reissued with McCauley's new novel, Alternatives to Sex 'McCauley is a snappy, acerbic, self-conscious satirist... There are deft descriptive touches, a stream of noirish one-liners-and a millefeuille of snarling East Coast irony' Observer 'An object lesson in cynicism... McCauley has a faultless eye for set-pieces, and he depicts his main characters with humour and conviction' Irish Times ... Read more