Clyde spends too much time obsessing over Gordon, his ex, devouring biographies in search of a design for living ("It's satifying to be reminded that the most eventful and interesting lives usually and tragically"), and dodging his family: his maddeningly inse... more »cure sister and irascible father, whose days might or might notbe numbered. Clyde's on the verge of becoming as aimless as his handsome (and unswervingly straight) roommate, Marcus, a casualty of higher education who's going on the tenth year of his dissertation and his umpteenth doomed relationship.