Sketches an intimate portrait of a family and its emotional struggle to come to terms with the death of matriarch Louise Cooper

Equal Affections: A Novel

LEAVITT, DAVID

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

Middlesex. 18 cm. 319 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma inglés .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.

The Lost Language of Cranes

Contemporary

BANTAM BOOKS

A first collection of short stories by an acclaimed and prize-winning author reveals the ways by which family life, rituals, and disappointments shape and haunt us all

Family Dancing & Other Stories; Territory; Counting Months; the Lost Cottage; Aliens; Danny in Transit; Family Dancing; Radiation; out Here; Dedicated

Penguin

This collection of ten stories continues to chronicle homosexual relationships in the same manner as the author's previous book "Family Dancing".

A Place I've Never Been

Literary

Penguin??Books

The story of Walter and Danny who live together in a quiet domestic "marriage". Walter is a lawyer, Danny is training for the law. Just as Danny's life appears to be settling down to something approaching calmness, Walter announces that he feels his life is going nowhere and he wants to leave.

Equal Affections

Penguin Books, Ltd.

While England Sleeps

David Leavitt has earned high praise for his empathetic portrayal of human sexuality and the complexities of intimate relationships. Now, with While England Sleeps, available for the first time in two years, Leavitt moves beyond precisely controlled domestic drama to create a historical novel, one that has greater breadth and resonance than anything he has written before. Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, While England Sleeps tells the story of a love affair between the aristocratic young British writer Brian Botsford, who thinks homosexuality is something he will outgrow, and Edward Phelan, a sensitive and idealistic working-class employee of the London Underground and a Communist party member. When the strains of class difference, sexual taboo, and Brian's ambivalence impel Edward to volunteer to fight against Franco in Spain, Brian pursues him across Europe and into the violent chaos of war.

VIKING

A collection of ten stories which explore the joys and agonies of love and friendship. Each of the stories illuminates a dark corner of human existance. Some are amusing and some are tragic. The author also wrote "Family Dancing", "The Lost Language of Cranes" and "Equal Affections".

A novel concerned with the nature of gay relationships in the AIDS age, the vulnerability of families, the conflicts of the generations and the failure of communication. David Leavitt's "Family Dancing" was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner prize.

Lost Language of Cranes

The story of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, thus ensuring the Allies' victory in World War II. In so doing, Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, formulating the famous (and still unbeaten) Turing Test that challenges our ideas of human consciousness. But Turing's postwar computer-building was cut short when, as an openly gay man in a time when homosexuality was officially illegal in England, he was apprehended by the authorities and sentenced to a "treatment" that amounted to chemical castration, leading to his suicide.With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity—his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candor—while elegantly explaining his work and its implications.

Man Who Knew Too Much

Atlas / W.W. Norton

The Page Turner

Houghton/Mifflin

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Equal Affections: A Novel

The Lost Language of Cranes

Family Dancing & Other Stories; Territory; Counting Months; the Lost Cottage; Aliens; Danny in Transit; Family Dancing; Radiation; out Here; Dedicated

A Place I've Never Been

Equal Affections

While England Sleeps

A Place I've Never Been

Lost Language of Cranes

Man Who Knew Too Much

The Page Turner