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Simon & Schuster, Jun 2001, 24.00, 314 pp.
ISBN: 0684810549
If anyone believes that all people approaching forty are settled in their ways, Jane Cody will prove them wrong. Jane has a doting husband, a precocious six-year old, and works as a producer at a Boston pubic TV station. However, instead of elation, Jane is bored. She begins to clandestinely meet with her former husband who pushes has passion buttons like a magician although he is married and a known philanderer.
Desmond Sullivan lives in New York City with his lover of five years Russel. He feels he is losing his identity by being part of a couple so accepts a position at Danforth College in Boston. Jane's husband works just across the hall from Desmond. Jane and Desmond team up to further their careers as both instinctively knows the other is discontented. When Desmond goes home for a weekend, he thinks he finds evidence that Joshua is cheating on her and ends up sleeping with Jane's brother whose wife is pregnant. After messing up their lives, Jane and Desmond decide to tell their partner the truth and hope love weathers the emotional storm.
TRUE ENOUGH is an entertaining mainstream drama that stars two protagonists seemingly running in place, but not knowing that they go nowhere. Jane and Desmond are far from perfect, but that makes them interesting as they make mistakes in trying to do the right thing for everyone. Stephen McCauley provides a strong relationship drama that indicates he has quite a career ahead of him.
Harriet Klausner
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Harriet Klausner, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Marriage/Married
Yes
Marriage subplot:
- inconveniently married while playing footsy
- seduction of someone else's wife
- seduction of someone else's husband
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- writer
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
How romantic is this person?
- somewhat romantic
Sex has bad effect on him
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
Sex has bad effect on her
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to torture
What % of story is romance related?
- 40%
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
- descript. of male nudity (the big P)
Focus of story
- many multiple characters
How much dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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