Summer Without Men

“Exuberant . . . A lighter, more lilting meditation on men and women. . . . terrific writing . . . mulling the gifts and limits of art, sex, marriage.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren’t there? And they ...