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Alternatives to Sex by McCauley, Stephen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Alternatives to Sex about?
The bestselling author of The Object of My Affection and True Enough delivers his most compelling and richly observed novel to date with this portrait of one man's search for the holy trinity of modern life - true love, good sex, and great real estate."A light, diverting romp through eminently adult concerns: sex, real estate, fidelity and housecleaning... Full of the complications of modern life... Loony and delicious... a delightful story." - San Francisco ChronicleWilliam Collins is a real estate agent working near Boston. Despite a boom market, his sales figures aren't what they should be, due mostly to the distractions of compulsive ironing and housecleaning binges and his penchant for nightly online cruising for hookups - "less impersonal than old-fashioned anonymous sex because you exchanged fake names with the person."There's also his struggle to collect the rent from Kumiko Rothberg, his passive-aggressive tenant, and his worries about his best friend, Edward, a flight attendant he's certainly not in love with. William has known for some time that his habits are slipping out of control. But he figures that "as long as I acknowledged my behaviour was a problem, it wasn't
Who reads Alternatives to Sex?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- McCauley, Stephen
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780743453196
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humor
- Rating
- 3.31 / 5 (591 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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