man-woman relationships

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Lucky Jim

1992
Teaching assistant James Dixon, burdened with a stuffy boss and an unwanted and unstable girlfriend, finds himself in a difficult position when he falls for Christine, a woman brought home for the weekend by his boss's son.

M. Butterfly

1988
Presents the text of the 1988 Tony Award-winning play in which diplomat Rene Gallimard, a captive of the French government, relives his twenty-year affair with a beautiful, elusive Chinese actress who turned out to be not only a spy, but a man in disguise, and includes comments by the author.

Sylvia

1996
A two-act stage production of the play "Sylvia" by playwright Albert Ramsdell Gurney that tells the story of Sylvia, a street-smart mixture of Lab and Poodle, who becomes a major bone of contention between a middle-aged couple.

Jude the obscure

1996
The story of Jude Fawley, an impoverished stonemason who aspires to the ministry and fails to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves in Victorian society.

Lady Windermere's fan

1998
Presents the text of the 1893 comedy of manners in which a woman of perceived low morals shows social paragon Lady Windermere the difference between true morality and its semblance.

Proof

a play
2001
A play by David Auburn which explores the unknowability of love and the mysteries of mathematics.

Sleeping beauty & the marine

2003
Journalist Cassandra Jones, overlooked at a press conference by sexy military hero Sam Wilder, decides to change her look when she is assigned to do a magazine article on the Marine captain, and soon finds her newly blond hair and contacts are getting her more attention than she bargained for.

White teeth

a novel
2000
Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, friends since serving together in World War II, deal with the problems of love, lust, and the other challenges of raising their families in 1970s London.

Crooked River burning

2001
The paths of David Zielinsky and Anne O'Connor, who shared a teenage love affair in 1952, continue to cross over the next twenty years as they follow different paths in the troubled city of Cleveland.

A patchwork planet

1998
Barnaby Gaitlin, a thirty-year-old who was frequently in trouble as a youth, has been working steadily for eleven years for Rent-a-Back, Inc., but it seems as though his family, his ex-wife, and even the woman who seems to be interested in him, just cannot get over his past reputation.

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