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David Leavitt

Forfatter af The Lost Language of Cranes

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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

The Lost Language of Cranes (1986) 1,270 eksemplarer
The Indian Clerk (2007) 749 eksemplarer
Familien danser : noveller (1983) 677 eksemplarer
Mens England sover (1993) 602 eksemplarer
Equal Affections (1989) 536 eksemplarer
Arkansas: Three Novellas (1997) 438 eksemplarer
A Place I've Never Been (1990) 434 eksemplarer
The Page Turner (1998) 405 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (1994) — Redaktør — 308 eksemplarer
The Body of Jonah Boyd: A Novel (2004) 304 eksemplarer
Martin Bauman; or, A Sure Thing (2000) 285 eksemplarer
Florence : a Delicate Case (2000) 260 eksemplarer
The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel (2013) 235 eksemplarer
The Marble Quilt (2001) 142 eksemplarer
Collected Stories (2003) 114 eksemplarer
Shelter in Place (2020) 81 eksemplarer
Italian Pleasures (1996) 77 eksemplarer
The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (2003) — Redaktør — 33 eksemplarer
The Stories of David Leavitt (2005) 13 eksemplarer
La nuova generazione perduta (1998) 9 eksemplarer
Il decoro (2020) 5 eksemplarer
Saturn Street (1996) 3 eksemplarer
Territory 2 eksemplarer
Enquanto a Inglaterra dorme (2003) 2 eksemplarer
A Room With a View 1 eksemplar
Linguagem Perdida 1 eksemplar
Subtropics (1) 1 eksemplar
L'Art de la dissertation (1999) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Maurice (1971) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver4,063 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Bidragyder — 730 eksemplarer
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Bidragyder — 440 eksemplarer
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Bidragyder — 360 eksemplarer
The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (1992) — Bidragyder — 318 eksemplarer
The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books (1997) — Bidragyder — 294 eksemplarer
Apartment in Athens (1945) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver265 eksemplarer
The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves (2012) — Bidragyder — 252 eksemplarer
Men on Men 2: Best New Gay Fiction (1988) — Bidragyder — 203 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing (1995) — Introduktion — 175 eksemplarer
20 Under 30 (1986) — Bidragyder — 90 eksemplarer
First Love/Last Love (1985) — Bidragyder — 85 eksemplarer
Man of My Dreams: Provocative Writing on Men Loving Men (1996) — Bidragyder — 75 eksemplarer
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 (2018) — Bidragyder — 66 eksemplarer
The Literary Lover: Great Stories of Passion and Romance (1993) — Bidragyder — 50 eksemplarer
Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader (2003) — Bidragyder — 49 eksemplarer
Circa 2000: Gay Fiction at the Millennium (2000) — Bidragyder — 41 eksemplarer
Something Inside: Conversations with Gay Fiction Writers (1999) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
Food of Love [2002 film] (2002) — Original book — 26 eksemplarer
Once Upon a Childhood: Stories and Memories of American Youth (2004) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
Latter-Gay Saints: An Anthology of Gay Mormon Fiction (2013) — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
Reasons to Believe: New Voices in American Fiction (1988) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
Godenzonen : verhalen over mannen (1999) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer

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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 andre anmeldelser | 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 anden anmeldelse | 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.… (mere)
 
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robfwalter | 5 andre anmeldelser | Jul 31, 2023 |
I always find it hard to review a two-star book, because the inevitable question is 'well why did you read it?' I read this because it was sort of hinted to me that Leavitt is a kind of American Alan Hollinghurst. However, his writing lacks the grace and style of Hollinghurst, and his characters lack the depth and complexity.

Essentially this is a book about miserable people written in lifeless prose. As a contrast, I'm reading Howard Jacobson at the moment, who writes about miserable people with sparkling, witty prose and it makes all the difference.

I did wonder as I read it if this book has just aged badly, and that at the time of writing it could get away with its dead prose and maudlin world view because it had political currency. However, there are many positive reviews on here, so I guess it just didn't provide that specific thing that separates my taste from that of many others.
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62
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Medlemmer
7,943
Popularitet
#3,051
Vurdering
½ 3.7
Anmeldelser
141
ISBN
310
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