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David Leavitt

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David Leavitt's first collection of stories, "Family Dancing," was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award & the PEN/Faulkner Prize. "The Lost Language of Cranes" was made into a BBC film, & "While England Sleeps" was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize. Leavitt näytä lisää is also the author of "Equal Affections," "A Place I've Never Been," "Arkansas," & "The Page Turner." With Mark Mitchell, he coedited "The Penguin Book of Short Stories" & "The Pages Passed from Hand to Hand" & cowrote "Italian Pleasures." He is recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation & the National Endowment for the Arts. He divides his time between Italy and Florida. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset

The Lost Language of Cranes: A Novel (1986) 1,283 kappaletta
The Indian Clerk (2007) 755 kappaletta
Perhetanssit (1983) 690 kappaletta
While England Sleeps (1993) 613 kappaletta
Kiintymyksiä (1989) 545 kappaletta
Arkansas: Three Novellas (1997) 445 kappaletta
A Place I've Never Been (1990) 444 kappaletta
The Page Turner (1998) 411 kappaletta
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (1994) — Toimittaja — 317 kappaletta
The Body of Jonah Boyd: A Novel (2004) 308 kappaletta
Martin Bauman; or, A Sure Thing (2000) 290 kappaletta
Florence : a Delicate Case (2000) 266 kappaletta
The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel (2013) 236 kappaletta
The Marble Quilt (2001) 147 kappaletta
Collected Stories (2003) 116 kappaletta
Shelter in Place (2020) 81 kappaletta
Italian Pleasures (1996) 77 kappaletta
The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (2003) — Toimittaja — 33 kappaletta
The Stories of David Leavitt (2005) 13 kappaletta
La nuova generazione perduta (1998) 10 kappaletta
Il decoro (2020) 5 kappaletta
Enquanto a Inglaterra dorme (2003) 3 kappaletta
Saturn Street (1996) 3 kappaletta
Territory 2 kappaletta
Subtropics (1) 1 kappale
L'Art de la dissertation (1999) 1 kappale

Associated Works

Maurice (1971) — Johdanto, eräät painokset4,146 kappaletta
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Avustaja — 744 kappaletta
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Avustaja — 444 kappaletta
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Avustaja — 369 kappaletta
The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (1992) — Avustaja — 319 kappaletta
The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books (1997) — Avustaja — 301 kappaletta
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology (1993) — Avustaja — 285 kappaletta
Apartment in Athens (1945) — Johdanto, eräät painokset277 kappaletta
The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves (2012) — Avustaja — 260 kappaletta
Men on Men 2: Best New Gay Fiction (1988) — Avustaja — 203 kappaletta
The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing (1995) — Johdanto — 176 kappaletta
20 Under 30 (1986) — Avustaja — 90 kappaletta
First Love/Last Love (1985) — Avustaja — 84 kappaletta
Man of My Dreams: Provocative Writing on Men Loving Men (1996) — Avustaja — 75 kappaletta
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 (2018) — Avustaja — 66 kappaletta
The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance (1993) — Avustaja — 50 kappaletta
Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader (2003) — Avustaja — 50 kappaletta
Circa 2000: Gay Fiction at the Millennium (2000) — Avustaja — 41 kappaletta
Something Inside: Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers (1999) — Avustaja — 33 kappaletta
Food of Love [2002 film] (2002) — Original book — 28 kappaletta
Vital Signs: Essential AIDS Fiction (2007) — Avustaja — 19 kappaletta
Latter-Gay Saints: An Anthology of Gay Mormon Fiction (2013) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta
Reasons to Believe: New Voices in American Fiction (1988) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
Godenzonen : verhalen over mannen (1999) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta

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Interesting regarding gay life and relationships
 
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JimandMary69 | 3 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 26, 2024 |
An enjoyable read, but nothing fantastic. It's sparked my interest in reading the biography of Ramanujan[b:The Man Who Knew Infinity|106139|The Man Who Knew Infinity|Robert Kanigel|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171562988s/106139.jpg|1031423]
 
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lschiff | 29 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Sep 24, 2023 |
Most of the stories in A place I've never been are tediously long and dragging. Although in most of these stories the main character is gay or lesbian, it feels as if the author tries to avoid foregrounding this. Given the fact that these short stories are very long, they do not present enough action of fascination to keep you interested.
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edwinbcn | 1 muu arvostelu | Aug 9, 2023 |
David Leavitt can't write. His sentences are ugly, his paragraphs even more so, and the hundred or so pages of this book that I read seemed to indicate that his structure is pretty awful too. The characters are unmotivated and unpleasant. The greatest problem, though, is that clearly none of it ever happened. The adjectives and adverbs are just put in for decoration, not to share with you what the protagonist really experienced. In one scene a delivery boy rings the bell and for some reason stands there "sheepishly" while he receives his money. It's like he has an alarm that rings every hundred words and he has to pop a descriptive word in; they're like speed bumps that prevent you from getting up any momentum in the novel.… (lisätietoja)
 
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robfwalter | 5 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jul 31, 2023 |

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