What: Patrick listlessly works at a travel agency. (It's 1992, so that's still a thing.) He also sleepwalks through his relationship with his long-term boyfriend, Arthur, and is ambivalent about occasionally nudging his brothers, Tony and Ryan, into better lives.
This novel could be in danger of wandering off into beautiful, melancholy contemplation (and some of the writing can be accurately described as "elegiac"), but the characters themselves spark off the page so vividly that I'm shocked this hasn't been adapted into a movie.
I would watch an entire miniseries just about Sharon Driscoll, Patrick's co-worker.
Representative quote [ok, not super representative, but it does show '92 dunking on Trump]:
"I was planning to leave on the Pan Am shuttle right after work. The Trump would have been marginally more convenient, and they were giving away pens on each flight, but I didn't want to risk flying on a morally bankrupt airline."
Connections to previous Wreckage: Stephen McCauley also wrote The Object of My Affection (Rec. #360) and The Easy Way Out was the source for Quote from a Fictional Character #89.
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