Slouching toward middle age, Severinus Lloyd Norris has, at long last, taken the decisive step toward finding his heart's desire and his life's companion. No one could be more supportive about his having gingerly come out of the closet than his exuberant and alarmingly beautiful ex-wife, who is eager to have him finally out of the house so that her meter reader (and synchronized swimming colleague) can move in. But his search for Mr. Right - and for his own comfortable place as a plain and normal citizen of the world - is complicated by any number of meddlesome people who have involved themselves in the cause of S. Lloyd Norris. Among them are his secretary, a steely matron with vague ties to minor royalty; his robust boss, whom he inadvertently sabotages; two churlish elderly men who reject his charity; a circle of bemused gay men who entangle him in a baffling series of romantic adventures; a temp with a housing problem and a belligerent boyfriend; and a Steinbeck-reading truck driver who just might be the answer to everyone's problems. Read Less