My Ex-Life

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The time for Stephen McCauley s breakout novel has come and My Ex Life is it in a major way A delicious novel for fans of Tom Perrotta, Maria Semple, and Cynthia D Aprix Sweeney about how sometimes the only way to move forward is to go back.David Hedges s life is coming apart at the seams His job helping San Francisco rich kids get into the colleges of their parents choice is exasperating his younger boyfriend has left him and the beloved carriage house he rents is being sold His solace is a Thai takeout joint that delivers 24 7.The last person he expects to hear from is Julie Fiske It s been decades since they ve spoken, and he s relieved to hear she s recovered from her brief, misguided first marriage To him.Julie definitely doesn t have a problem with marijuana she s given it up completely, so it doesn t matter if she gets stoned almost daily and the Airbnb she s running out of her seaside house north of Boston is neither shabby nor illegal And she has two whole months to come up with the money to buy said house from her second husband before their divorce is finalized She d just like David s help organizing college plans for her 17 year old daughter.That would be Mandy To quote Barry Manilow, Oh Mandy While she knows she s smarter than most of the kids in her school, she can t figure out why she s making so many incredibly dumb and increasingly dangerous choices.When David flies east, they find themselves living under the same roof one David needs to repair David and Julie pick up exactly where they left off thirty years ago they re still best friends who can finish each other s sentences But there s one broken bit between them that no amount of home renovations will fix.In prose filled with hilarious and heartbreakingly accurate one liners, Stephen McCauley has written a novel that examines how we define home, family, and love Be prepared to laugh, shed a few tears, and have thoughts of your own ex life triggered Throw pillows optional. New Download [ My Ex-Life ] by [ Stephen McCauley ] – kino-fada.fr I m somewhere between 4 and 4.5 stars.In 1987, I read Stephen McCauley s The Object of My Affection I fell head over heels in love with that book about the often blurred lines between love and friendship, and how we sometimes confuse security for happiness I ve read it a number of times since then, and it is easily one of my favorite books The less said about the film adaptation with Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd the better Through the years, I have read all of McCauley s other books, an I m somewhere between 4 and 4.5 stars.In 1987, I read Stephen McCauley s The Object of My Affection I fell head over heels in love with that book about the often blurred lines between love and friendship, and how we sometimes confuse security for happiness I ve read i...A smart, sassy and soulful look at lives re imagined with enough one liners to fill a notebook worthy of Oscar Wilde He knew he was best appreciated in small doses and at great distances, a fact that bothered him less than he suspected it should A protagonist that describes himself in this way in the first few pages has got my attention Of his ex wife s estranged husbandHe was suspicious of the man because he made money with other people s money, something he equated to plagiarism More rece A smart, sassy and soulful look at lives re imagined with enough one liners to fill a notebook worthy of Oscar Wilde He knew he was best appreciated in small doses and at great distances, a fact that bothered him less than he suspected it should A protagonist that ...4 Stars This book is exactly what I needed when I picked it up I ve been reading such intense books lately that I need something a little bit on the lighter side Now, don t get me wrong this was a light read in the sense of actions that took place however the psychological effect of this book is complex.Have you ever been divorced because you found out your ex husband was actually gay We hear about it from time to time and most of the time people typically go their separate ways and lead thei 4 Stars This book is exactly what I needed when I picked it up I ve been reading such intense books lately that I need something a little bit on the lighter side Now, don t get me wrong this was a light read in the sense of actions that took place however the psychological effect of this book ...Well that book was a ton of fun Not my usual genre but I loved this quirky, witty read.I loved this novel, and am so excited to have discovered Stephen McCauley as a writer I m planning to work my way through all his books This is funny, thought provoking, and engaging with some descriptions that are so satisfactorily accurate that I wanted to read them out loud to the...Love and family or not, which is utterly refreshing intelligently and sensitively portrayed Picture George and Nina of The Object of My Affection similar, not exactly them, and the fabulous book rather than the tepid movie 30 years later As engaging as those chara...This pleasant book about interesting characters in interesting relationships would have earned a higher rating from me had it not been completely ruined for me by the author s undisguised utter loathing of conservatives and religious people, or as he calls them, religious people The first negative comment, a thought that Julie has that her soon to be ex husband may have voted for Mitt Romney as an act of aggression towards her, I chalked up to the character s own foibles or dislike of the rig This pleasant book about interesting characters in interesting relationships would have earned a higher rating from me had it not been completely ruined for me by the author s undisguised utter loathing of conservatives and religious people, or as he calls them, religious people The first negative comment, a thought that Julie has that ... UPDATE After much self debate and contemplation I did decide to leave a one star rating I think the way I feel and my inability to stomach this book are valid reasons for the one star rating in this instance I would not bat an eye at giving any other book I tried reading and had to abandon a low rating Why not this one I have decided to not finish this book DNF There are too many wonderful books I would like to have time to read rather than subject myself to the feelings created within m UPDATE After much self debate and contemplation I did decide to leave a one star rating I think the way I feel and my inability to stomach this book are valid reasons for the one star rating in this instance I would not bat an eye at giving any other book I tried reading and had to abandon a low rating Why not this one I have decided to not finish this book DNF There are too many wonderful books I would like to have time to read rather than subject myself to the feelings created within me as I tried...Every year there are at least a few entries into a genre I adore and which I call Modern Gay Comedy of Manners Last year I fell for Andrew Sean Greer s delicious and heartwarming Less This year I m glad I discovered Stephen McCauley s new book It s not as sentimental as Greer s book, nor as romantic, but like LESS, it is concerned with the ways in which we reinvent ourselves and forge or re forge families in middle age In his exploration of how a gay man and a straight woman...3.6 My Ex Life reminded me of an Elinor Lipman novel witty and light with smart characters sorting through their problems Sometimes the flippant, pithy internal dialogues and conversations felt too effortful but not enough to ...

My Ex-Life
  • 07 September 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 324 pages
  • 1250122430
  • Stephen McCauley
  • My Ex-Life