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  <title><![CDATA[The Easy Way Out]]></title>
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  <default_description> &lt;P&gt;Patrick O'Neil is a travel agent who never goes anywhere. His closest&lt;P&gt;confidante, Sharon, is chain-smoking her way to singles hell, passing up man&lt;P&gt;after man. His parents, proprietors of a suburban men's store whose fortunes&lt;P&gt;are sagging more visibly than its customers, can't agree how best to interfere&lt;P&gt;in their sons' lives. And his lover, Arthur (a nice golden retriever of a guy&lt;P&gt;to whom Patrick can't quite commit), wants to cement their relationship&lt;P&gt;by buying a house.&lt;P&gt;Then a call comes in the middle of another sleepless night. Tony, Patrick's&lt;P&gt;straight-as-an-arrow younger brother, has fallen in love with a beautiful&lt;P&gt;lawyer who is turning him on to...&lt;I&gt;opera.&lt;/I&gt; Unfortunately, she's not the woman he's already pledged to marry. Tony's life is a mess. Finally, the brothers have something in common.&lt;P&gt; </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1992</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Easy Way Out</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Stephen McCauley]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just read this book and it took me back to the days of Armistead Maupin. The way Stephen writes is very personal and you almost immediately feel that you are very vividly experiencing something with substance. The Easy Way Out deals with the  very personal issue of control, who has it, how do we u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23115689">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[He makes his boyfriend tag along, until it's too late, then what?]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me quite a while to get through <em>The Easy Way Out</em> by Stephen McCauley, but that's not because I didn't enjoy the book, or that it wasn't interesting. Getting back into the &quot;work&quot; routine is taking some time, but at least I'm done being sick so I'm back at the gym.<br/><br/>Anyway,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1429692">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 13 13:02:58 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As this was on Nancy Pearl's list of books she rereads when she's feeling blue, I thought I was in for some fun. Especially since I liked the film based on another book by the same author, Object of My Affection. But no. The characters were the most self-centered and vapid people I have ever had the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36255030">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorites! A travel agent near Harvard U, who rides his bike to work, cannot bring himself to break-up with his perfect (on paper) boyfriend. Many individual passages are memorable. One critic called this guy &quot;the lovechild of Edity Wharton &amp; Woody Allen&quot;. I won't argue.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So good!  Set in Cambridge in thw 1990s, this novel has loads of references to Boston and Harvard Square. It's very funny, and in the end, very poignant.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a great stoop find, maybe i like books better when they are free but this was great]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love this author - have read every one of his books.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Stephen McCauley-always a fun read-]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really good, really funny novel. ]]></body>
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