The Man of the House

The Man of the House

by StephenMcCauley (Author)

Synopsis

A funny, moving and insightful novel about dysfunctional families and our disaffected hero's attempts to cope with the possibility of paternity.

Clyde Carmichael is an underachieving teacher at a posh adult education centre. Obsessed by his ex, Gordon, and devouring biographies, in search of a design for living, Clyde spends much of his time avoiding his family. He is close to becoming as idle as his room mate, Marcus, who is in his tenth year completing his dissertation and on his umpteenth doomed relationship.

This aimlessness is disturbed by the arrival of Louise Morris with a son, Ben, and a neurotic dog. Louise is a peripatetic writer, Clyde's old friend and Marcus's onetime lover. The question of Ben's paternity turns up the heat and heralds an anxious, affectionate and humorous insight into the ties that bind - and sometimes strangle - families and friends.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 08 Jan 1998

ISBN 10: 1857027027
ISBN 13: 9781857027020
Book Overview: In February 1996 McCauley was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.

Author Bio

Author of two acclaimed previous novels The Object of My Affection and The Easy Way Out. The author lives in Cambridge, Massachussets. In February 1996 he received the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture.