Alternatives to Sex

Pleasure and guilt make mischievous bedfellows in Stephen McCauley's witty send-up of modern love, sex, and real...
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Author: Stephen McCauley
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Alternatives to Sex by McCauley, Stephen

Alternatives to Sex

$30.78

Alternatives to Sex

$30.78
Author: Stephen McCauley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pleasure and guilt make mischievous bedfellows in Stephen McCauley's witty send-up of modern love, sex, and real estate.

Boston real estate agent William Collins knows that his habits are slipping out of control. Due to obsessive-compulsive daily cleaning binges and a penchant for nightly online cruising for hookups, he finds his sales figures slipping despite a booming market. There's also his ongoing struggle to collect the rent from his passive-aggressive tenant and his worries about his best friend, Edward, whom he's certainly not in love with. Just as he decides to do something about his life, he meets Charlotte and Samuel, wealthy suburbanites looking for the perfect city apartment. Happy couple, he writes in his notes. Maybe I can learn something from them. What he ultimately discovers challenges his own assumptions about real estate, love, and desire--and what they learn from him might unravel a budding friendship, not to mention a very promising sale.

Full of crackling dialogue delivered by a stellar ensemble of players, Alternatives to Sex is a smart, hilarious chronicle of life in post-traumatic, morally ambiguous America--where the desire to do good is constantly being tripped up by the need to feel good. Right now.

Author: Stephen McCauley
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 01/09/2007
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.28w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780743453196

About the Author
Stephen McCauley is the author of Alternatives to Sex, True Enough, The Man of the House, The Easy Way Out, My Ex-Life, and The Object of My Affection, which was adapted into a film starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Visit his website at StephenMcCauley.com.

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