David Leavitt
Forfatter af The Lost Language of Cranes: A Novel
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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af David Leavitt
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 (1998) — Redaktør — 170 eksemplarer
La trapunta di marmo (racconti) 2 eksemplarer
Heaped Earth (in Bestial Noise - GATES) 2 eksemplarer
Territory 2 eksemplarer
Dedicated {short story} 2 eksemplarer
A Room With a View 1 eksemplar
A colcha de mármore 1 eksemplar
David Leavitt - As Japanese as Burt Bacharach 1 eksemplar
Linguagem Perdida 1 eksemplar
Sentimentos paralelos 1 eksemplar
O Escriturário Indiano 1 eksemplar
Subtropics (1) 1 eksemplar
Copritela di terra (in La trapunta di marmo) 1 eksemplar
When You Grow to Adultry {short story} 1 eksemplar
La collottola (in La trapunta di marmo) 1 eksemplar
La scenda del contagio (in La trapunta di marmo) 1 eksemplar
Route 80 (in La trapunta di marmo) 1 eksemplar
La scatola nera (in La trapunta di marmo) 1 eksemplar
Speonk (in La trapunta di marmo) 1 eksemplar
La lista (in La trapunta di marmo) 1 eksemplar
Subtropics (Issue 7 Winter/Spring 2009) 1 eksemplar
Subtropics (Issue 8, Spring/Summer 2009) 1 eksemplar
Contando i mesi (in Ballo di famiglia) 1 eksemplar
Il cottage perduto (in Ballo di famiglia) 1 eksemplar
Danny in transito (in Ballo di famiglia) 1 eksemplar
Radiazioni (in Ballo di famiglia) 1 eksemplar
Da queste parti (in Ballo di famiglia) 1 eksemplar
הלשון האבודה של העגורנים 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Bidragyder — 513 eksemplarer
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragyder — 452 eksemplarer
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introduktion — 380 eksemplarer
There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (1998) — Bidragyder — 209 eksemplarer
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Bidragyder — 183 eksemplarer
Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Short Stories (1994) — Bidragyder — 76 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1961-06-23
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Uddannelse
- Yale University
- Erhverv
- novelist
short story writer
non-fiction writer
professor - Organisationer
- University of Florida
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The Page Turner af David Leavitt
Interesting regarding gay life and relationships
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]
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.
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.… (mere)
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