The Man of the House

by StephenMcCauley (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $6.18

  Clyde spends too much time at things that make him miserable. His roommate Marcus spends his time drifting from one aimless pursuit to the next. Enter Louise Morris: Clyde's old friend and Marcus's onetime lover, with her son in toe, who bares an uncanny resemblance to Marcus.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $4.78

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  1996

  $18.63