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Florence: A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
Category: Travel | Series: Writer and the City
Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating--and so r ...Show more
Florence, A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
Category: Travel | Series: The Writer and the City
Novelist David Leavitt joins Edmund White and Peter Carey in the acclaimed The Writer and the City series with a scintillating view of Italy's most adored city. Florence is the only European city I can think of whose most famous citizens, at least in the last 150 years or so, have all been foreigners ...Show more
Martin Bauman by Leavitt, David
Category: Fiction
At the dawn of the Reagan era Martin Bauman, nineteen, clever, ambitious and insecure, is enrolled at a prestigious college with a hard-won place under the tutelage of the legendary and enigmatic Stanley Flint, a man who can make or break writing careers with the flick of a weary hand. Martin is poised ...Show more
Shelter in Place by David Leavitt
Category: Fiction
"Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet." -Rachel Cusk"Wickedly funny and emotionally expansive." - Jenny Offill It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an intimate group of friends, New Yorkers all, has ...Show more
Shelter in Place by David Leavitt
Category: Fiction
"Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet." -Rachel Cusk "A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel about all the bewildering ways we seek solace from the people and things that surround us." - Jenny Offill David Leavitt returns with his signature "coolly ele ...Show more
Stories of David Leavitt by David Leavitt
Category: Fiction
Bringing together all three of his collections - Family Dancing (a finalist for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Prize), A Place I've Never Been and The Marble Quilt - this edition affirms David Leavitt's mastery of the short-story form.
The Body of Jonah Boyd by David Leavitt
Category: Fiction
It's 1969 and Denny is on her way to the annual Thanksgiving dinner at the Wright's plush campus house. Denny is more nervous than usual because she has recently begun an affair with Dr Ernest Wright, a psychology professor who happens to be her boss. Needless to say, Ernest's wife Nancy doesn't suspect ...Show more
The Body of Jonah Boyd : A novel by David Leavitt
Category: Fiction
The brilliant new novel from the author described as 'one of his generation's most gifted writers' by the New York Times. It's 1969, and Judith 'Denny' Denham has just begun an affair with Dr. Ernest Wright, a psychology professor at Wellspring University, who just happens to be her boss. But her po ...Show more
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
Category: Fiction
"Richly imagined [and] impressive" ("New York Times Book Review"), this critically acclaimed and emotionally charged novel about the strange and ultimately tragic relationship between an esteemed British mathematician and an unknown--and unschooled--mathematical genius is historical fiction at its best: ...Show more
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
Category: Fiction
On a January morning in 1913, G. H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to ...Show more
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
Category: Fiction
January, 1913, Cambridge. G.H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the ...Show more