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Arkansas by David Leavitt
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
In 'Saturn Street' a disaffected screenwriter in Los Angeles volunteers to deliver lunches to homebound AIDS patients and falls in love with one of his clients. In 'The Wooden Anniversary', Nathan and Celia - characters familiar to readers of Leavitt's short story collections - reunite awkwardly, at the ...Show more
Family Dancing by David Leavitt
$8.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just twenty-three, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: "remarkably gifted" (TheWashington Post), with "a genius for empathy" (TheNew York Times Book Review) and "a know ...Show more
In Maremma - Life and a House in Southern Tuscany by David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell
$8.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
An intimate portrait of life in a small rural town in Tuscany recounting David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell's restoration of a dilapidated 1950's farmhouse in southern Tuscany and the process by which they became initiated into a part of Italian life that foreigners rarely see. The pleasures of the olive h ...Show more
Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, "The Lost Language of Cranes "tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip Benjamin, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own problem ...Show more
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
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