The Man of the House (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stephen McCauley
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1990’s
- Setting: Cambridge, Massachusetts; New Hampshire
- Principal Characters: Clyde Carmichael, Clyde’s father, Agnes, Barbara, Louise Morris, Ben Morris, Marcus Gladstone, Donald Gern, Otis, Eileen Ash
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Mothers, Parents and children, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Friendship, College life, Fathers, Illegitimacy
- Locales: Cambridge, MA, New Hampshire
The Man of the House is a novel about family values. It reflects the shifting notions of family that typify the last quarter of the twentieth century. Although its protagonist is a homosexual, The Man of the House is not a gay novel. Rather, it is a novel with a gay protagonist who, while finding sexual and emotional satisfaction in the gay world, functions freely in a largely heterosexual social milieu.
Separated from Gordon, his lover for more than two years, Clyde now shares an apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Marcus Gladstone, a strikingly handsome...
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