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Going Dutch : a novel / James Gregor.

ISBN: 9781982103194
ISBN: 1982103191
ISBN: 9781982103200
ISBN: 1982103205
Physical Description: 339 pages ; 23 cm
Edition: First Simon &amp; Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon &amp; Schuster, 2019.
Copyright: &copy;2019

Summary:

"Exhausted by dead-end forays in the gay dating scene, surrounded constantly by friends but deeply lonely in New York City, and drifting into academic abyss, twenty-something graduate student Richard has plenty of sources of anxiety. But at the forefront is his crippling writer's block, which threatens daily to derail his graduate funding and leave Richard poor, directionless, and desperately single. Enter Anne: his brilliant classmate who offers to 'help' Richard write his papers in exchange for his company, despite Richard's fairly obvious sexual orientation. Still, he needs her help, and it doesn't hurt that Anne has folded Richard into her abundant lifestyle. What begins as an initially transactional relationship blooms gradually into something more complex. But then a one-swipe-stand with an attractive, successful lawyer named Blake becomes serious, and Richard suddenly finds himself unable to detach from Anne, entangled in her web of privilege, brilliance, and, oddly, her unabashed acceptance of Richard's flaws. As the two relationships reach points of serious commitment, Richard soon finds himself on a romantic and existential collision course--one that brings about surprising revelations."-- Provided by publisher.