Stephen McCauley

• Jan-2024
• / General Fiction

“I don’t think I will find a book I love more this year.” -- Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author“Funny, poignant, joyous, explosive, but most of all affirming of our connections to one another. You Only Call When You're in Trouble i...

• May-2018
• / Literary

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....

• Jun-2010
• / Literary

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU DISCOVER YOUR INSIGNIFICANT OTHER IS BECOMING MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN YOUR SPOUSE? Richard Rossi works in HR at a Boston-based software company and prides himself on his understanding of the foibles and fictions we all use to g...

• Apr-2006
• / General Fiction

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 boomin...

• Jun-2001
• / General Fiction

From the author of The Object of My Affection comes a warm and witty family drama about love and lust, trust and betrayal, commitment and denial.Jane Cody keeps lists. After all, how else would she keep track of her life -- her job producing a Boston...

• Feb-1996
• / General Fiction

Stephen McCauley's much-loved novels The Object of My Affection and The Easy Way Out prompted The New York Times Book Review to dub him "the secret love child of Edith Wharton and Woody Allen." Now McCauley stakes further claim to that title -- and m...

• Jun-1992
• / General Fiction

Patrick O'Neil is a travel agent who never goes anywhere. His closestconfidante, Sharon, is chain-smoking her way to singles hell, passing up manafter man. His parents, proprietors of a suburban men's store whose fortunesare sagging more visibly than...

• Mar-1991
• / General Fiction

The inspiration for the film of the same name starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, this “very funny, exceptionally vivid first novel” (The New York Times Book Review) from Stephen McCauley is a “joyously comic” (People) story about a preg...