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ACCLAIM FOR STEPHEN McCAULEY AND TRUE ENOUGH

“With True Enough, his wry new novel, [McCauley] ventures farther down the path of cross-gender empathy, creating a female protagonist who doesn’t merely claim our hearts but rips them out and slings them over her shoulder . . . . The good news is that McCauley has continued to hone his talent, and True Enough is, in many ways, his best book yet—the prose snappier, the dialogue sharper and tarter than ever.”

—The New York Times

“McCauley has a talent for creating immensely appealing characters who, while far from perfect—or perhaps because of this lack of perfection—wend their way into the reader’s heart. True Enough continues his streak of producing novels that blend laugh-out-loud humor with a welcome sense of tenderness about human relationships.”

—The Washington Post

“McCauley takes aim at modern relationships (both hetero- and homosexual) and urban, artsy, intellectual lifestyles in the funny, sharp, and irreverent manner that they richly deserve.”

—Booklist

“McCauley’s . . . insight into the small self-delusions that support satisfied lives is . . . as sharp as ever.”

—Publishers Weekly

PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS NOVELS OF STEPHEN McCAULEY

THE OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION

“A very funny, exceptionally vivid first novel . . . . Surely one of the best books about what it is like to be young in these crazy times.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“A joyously comic novel . . . superb . . . shimmers with hope, humor, and compassion.”

—People

“A wonderful romantic comedy.”

—The New Yorker

“McCauley has created some of the most appealing characters I’ve come across in years—quirky, flawed, irresistibly sad and funny . . . I can’t think of better company than Stephen McCauley’s The Object of My Affection. . . . A novel that warms like a hug.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“Charming and affecting . . . . The strong plotting, memorable gallery of characters, and wry look at the complicated state of relations between the sexes could beguile any reader from Bensonhurst to Burbank.”

—Los Angeles Daily News

“Debonair and light as a soufflé, The Object of My Affection is an unexpected treat.”

—Glamour

THE EASY WAY OUT

“Superb . . . funny, magnanimous, and devastatingly accurate . . . .”

—The New York Times Book Review

“The Easy Way Out is the best kind of contemporary fiction. Stephen McCauley captures not only how we live, but how we love, and even how we get through the day. The Easy Way Out manages to be miraculously both a joyous and important book.”

—Wendy Wasserstein

“Charm may be the hardest of all qualities to pin down on paper, but The Easy Way Out has it brimming from every page.”

—Vogue

THE MAN OF THE HOUSE

“A comic novel about human predicaments . . . . McCauley has mastered the small yet perfect comic gesture . . . . Readers will welcome back the rueful and rumpled comic vision that is unmistakably his own.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“A funny, fluent novel . . . . McCauley’s particular skill lies in his grasp of the bonds that link straights and gays in the maze of daily dealings.”

—Time