Buy Used
Used - Very Good See details
Price: £2.50
Fulfilled by Amazon

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
   
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
True Enough
 
 
Share your own customer images
Search inside another edition of this book
Tell the Publisher!
I’d like to read this book on Kindle

Don t have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

True Enough [Paperback]

McCauley (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Available from these sellers.


32 used from £0.01

Formats

 Amazon Price New from Used from
Hardcover --   £12.85 £0.85
Paperback £7.99   £3.29 £0.01
Paperback, 1 Jun 2002 --   -- £0.01
Great Offers in Books
Save up to 50% on selected titles in New Releases, 1000s of Paperbacks and Favourites.

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Alternatives to Sex

Alternatives to Sex

by Stephen McCauley
4.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £7.99
The Easy Way Out

The Easy Way Out

by Stephen McCauley
4.2 out of 5 stars (9)  £7.99
The Object of My Affection

The Object of My Affection

by Stephen McCauley
4.7 out of 5 stars (7)  £7.99
The Man of the House

The Man of the House

by Stephen McCauley
3.0 out of 5 stars (3)  £7.19
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.; Reprint edition (1 Jun 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743444035
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743444033
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 15.7 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,364,555 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

More About the Author

Stephen McCauley
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.

› Visit Amazon's Stephen McCauley Page

Product Description

Observer

‘McCauley is a snappy, acerbic, self-conscious satirist. There are deft descriptive touches and a stream of noirish one-liners' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Guardian

'McCauley's style reads as if Ann Tyler had been drafted on to the writing team of Sex and the City' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
See all Product Description
Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
Search inside this book:

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
stephen mccauley
gay interest fiction
okay read

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Alternatives to Sex
58% buy
Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley Paperback 4.0 out of 5 stars (1)
£7.99
True Enough
42% buy the item featured on this page:
True Enough by McCauley Paperback 3.0 out of 5 stars (1)
› Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

1 Review
5 star:    (0)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:
 (1)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
3.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars True Enough but not quite good enough, 20 Jan 2003
By A. Butterfield (UK) - See all my reviews
(TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)    (REAL NAME)   
This review is from: True Enough (Hardcover)
This is an enjoyable read, on the whole. It's (mostly) written from the point of its two protagonists, Desmond and Jane. Their stories are different at the start of the novel but they meet and their stories intertwine.
Woven around their combined quest to find the truth about the life of a little-known singer (for a TV documentary they're making) are their personal quests to find the truth about their own relationships. Looking for meaning in relationships is familiar ground for Stephen McCauley.
Familiar characters too: Desmond, a gay man from New York with no particularly endearing characteristics, and Jane, rather stereotypical career-woman with a husband she doesn't find attractive any more.
These rather unpromising characters are matched by an equally unpromising central plot-line. Not much to work with then.
And I think that Stephen McCauley makes fairly heavy weather of the material he has lumbered himself with. Which is a shame, considering how light and deft his previous work is.
The saving grace for Desmond and Jane, who spend the entire novel looking for a reason to tell the story of "Pauline Anderton" is that they make an a astonishing discovery. Great for them, but for the reader, it comes too late and seems like an attempt to salvage a flagging plot.
Up until then, nothing much happens that surprises or interests, and we grind through the quite unattractive lives of characters we can't care much about. The writing is inelegant too: there's too much detail about, well, everything, and none of it adds to the story. It's neither significant, nor particularly interesting. It's just padding.
There are a few quirky characters, but even the most potentially interesting one, Rosemary, is given a "hammy" B-movie part to play. Jane's child, Gerald, is perhaps the most interesting character, but again he's handled without much subtlety.
I'd say that this is McCauley's least satisfying work to date, unfortunately.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject













i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback



Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.