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The Lost Language of Cranes: A Novel

20 reviews
David Leavitt

Bloomsbury USA, 2005

Remarkable Novel
I read this book for a class, and enjoyed it much more than I ever expected, especially in retrospect. I think it takes a little time to really get into, especially because Leavitt jumps back and forth between the three main characters and storylines, but once you get into the rhythm of the story, you are drawn in. Leavitt does a great character study of Owen, Rose, and Philip, and by the end ...

Italian Pleasures

2 reviews
David Leavitt, Mark Mitchell

Chronicle Books, 1996

NOT AN ORDINARY TRAVEL BOOK
I am very sorry to learn that this small, beautifully put together book is out of print. If you have ever vacationed in or worked in or simply visited Italy or if you have dreamed about doing it, you'll want to, somehow, find this book. Leavitt and Mitchell have collected famous writers thoughts on Italy (D.H. Lawrence, Nellie Melba, John Ruskin, Mark Twain, etc.) and then written down their ...

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries)

16 reviews
David Leavitt

W. W. Norton, 2006

The Essential Turing Reading
All students studying computer science are introduced to Alan Turing at one time or another. For most, this introduction takes the form of Turing as the inventor of the Turing Machine, a machine unbounded by time and memory that can solve any problem. Once the students perform some perfunctory exercises involving the use of a Turing machine to construct say, the solution to the dining ...

Apartment in Athens (New York Review Books Classics)

6 reviews
Glenway Wescott

NYRB Classics, 2004

The everydayness of evil
What makes this small masterpiece trouble your sleep is the brilliant way in which Glenway Westcott portrayed marriage, intimacy, and the essential decency of the Helianos couple...each of which would prove their downfall. Mr. and Mrs. Helianos' profound misjudgement of their brutal guest originates in their belief in a certain threshhold of humanity below which real people do not fall. But ...

The Indian Clerk: A Novel

17 reviews
David Leavitt

Bloomsbury USA, 2008

An attempt to respond to a challenge
The story has been told before. Not long before the first World War, G. H. Hardy, the well-known English mathematician, receives a letter from an unknown Indian clerk asking Hardy to review and comment on certain mathematical results. Hardy consults with J. E.Littlewood, another eminent mathematician, and together they decide the Indian might be a self-taught mathematical genius. After trial ...

The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories

3 reviews

Penguin Books Ltd, 1995

39 Inteligent pieces of litrature - source of pride!
The anthology is an excellent book. The stories were not written exclusively by gay authors, and surprises are waiting for the readers (e.g. Noel Coward's beautiful story). The 39 stories are offered by well-known authors (e.g. Forster, Isherwood), known young authors (Leavitt, Kramer) and by those less known. In so introducing new and promising authors to the readers, Leavitt and Mitchell prove ...

Subtropics (Issue 1 Winter/Spring 2006)

Dept. of English, University of Florida, 2006

Soho Square
R. M. Lamming, David Leavitt, ...

Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 1993

While England Sleeps

18 reviews
David Leavitt

Abacus Uk, 1998

Sad, yet Truthful
I read this novel in a day and a half because I found that I could not put it down. Brian, to me, seems like an average guy who is a bit shallow and only interested in fast sex. Edward, on the other hand, is more sensitive and committed to their relationship. Brian has a lot of fears because of his homosexuality. He thinks that it's just a phase that he'll pass, and that of course, he will ...

Collected Stories

1 review
David Leavitt

Bloomsbury USA, 2003

simply great
I literaly raced through this book, i loved it. Its so good and i fell i love with the characters only to be saddened by their going away at the end of each short stories. (except for nathan and celia who comes back to our great pleasure). I want to read all of david leavitts book. Its that good. Any of you out there who might want to share or discuss some of the short stories( god i do) ...

Arkansas: Three Novellas

19 reviews
David Leavitt

Mariner Books, 1998

One Very Good and Two Good Novellas
I haven't read Leavitt in awhile and had Arkansas sitting on my shelf. Arkansas is a collection of 3 stories -- each about 60-70 pages in length. Like much of Leavitt's work, while it is fiction, it gives at least to sense of being autobiographical. The main protagonist is often a stand-in for Leavitt himself. The strongest story of the 3 is the first one, "The Term Paper Artist" which ...

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