David Leavitt”s fiction has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize, the National Book Critics” Circle Award and the LA Times Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper”s and Vogue, among other publications. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he is Professor of English at the University of Florida and edits the literary magazine Subtropics.
19 Ebooks by Leavitt David Leavitt
David Leavitt: Stories of David Leavitt
‘Leavitt’s stories show great talent, and many a writer would be grateful to have written them’ New York Times Book Review’Leavitt ranks among the best short-story writers working today’ Houston Post …
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€20.54
Leavitt David Leavitt: Indian Clerk
Based on the remarkable true story of G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, and populated with such luminaries such as D. H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Indian Clerk takes …
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€19.51
Leavitt David Leavitt: Body of Jonah Boyd
Denny is a secretary who has just begun an affair with her boss, while also maintaining a friendship with his wife. Invited to the family’s house for Thanksgiving dinner, she enters into a chain of e …
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€12.32
Leavitt David Leavitt: Florence
The third in the critically acclaimed Writer and the City Series – in which some of the world’s finest novelists reveal the secrets of the cities they know best – Florence is a lively account of expa …
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€13.47
Leavitt David Leavitt: Two Hotel Francforts
It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe-a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away …
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€9.23
Leavitt David Leavitt: While England Sleeps
Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, While England Sleeps tells the story of a love affair between Brian Botsford, an upper-class young English writer, and Edward Phelan, an idealistic em …
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€14.33
Leavitt David Leavitt: Lost Language of Cranes
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 par …
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€15.39
Leavitt David Leavitt: Family Dancing
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: "re …
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€14.31
Leavitt David Leavitt: Place I’ve Never Been
David Leavitt’s second collection of stories further confirms a talent deep and wonderfully creative in its empathy. A Place I’ve Never Been explores family relationships, friendships, and romantic r …
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€10.25
Leavitt David Leavitt: Marble Quilt
David Leavitt displays his masterful range, his deep emotional intelligence and wit in these nine stories, a cosmopolitan selection set variously over the past century, from fin de siecle London to e …
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€10.27
David Leavitt: Indian Clerk
The extraordinary true story of the discovery of one of history’s greatest mathematicians in rural India. His life is the subject of the major film The Man Who Knew Infinity’Excellent … His Hardy i …
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€19.56
Leavitt David Leavitt: Body Of Jonah Boyd
The brilliant comic novel from the author hailed as ‘one of his generation’s most gifted writers’ by the New York Times’Cleverly plotted and subtle … Leavitt’s superb sense of comic timing and gent …
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€8.21
David Leavitt: Lost Language of Cranes
‘One of his generation’s most gifted writers.’ New York Times’An amazingly perceptive novel.’ San Francisco Chronicle’Fascinating… lingers in the mind’ New York Times Book Review Owen and Rose are …
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€13.34
David Leavitt: Equal Affections
Louise Cooper has been battling cancer for over twenty years. Her growing resentment towards her suburban life and her husband, Nat, compounded by his affair, have left her longing for the life she d …
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€9.20
Leavitt David Leavitt: Florence
‘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.’ Thus David Leavitt writes in this lively account of exp …
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€13.50
David Leavitt: Two Hotel Francforts
A taut and subtle historical novel of two couples caught up in a world at war, from the acclaimed author of The Indian Clerk’A highly accomplished, urbane and satisfying novel … Splendid’ Literary …
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€9.21
David Leavitt: Shelter in Place
‘Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet’ Rachel Cusk’A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel’ Jenny Offill It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidentia …
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€10.26
Leavitt David Leavitt: Shelter in Place
"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 sol …
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€10.29
David Leavitt: Shelter in Place
‘Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet’ Rachel Cusk’A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel’ Jenny Offill It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidentia …
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€10.26
