Arkansas: Three Novellas - Hardcover

Leavitt, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395837049 ISBN 13: 9780395837047

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997

Synopsis

In a trio of novellas, a screenwriter who volunteers to deliver lunches to people homebound with AIDS falls in love with one of his clients; Celia and Nathan struggle with love, and a writer agrees to write term papers in exchange for sexual favors. First serial, Esquire. Tour.

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Review:

David Leavitt's reputation has rested upon stories and novels that explicate a sedate, upper-middle class world of reserved emotions and sexuality. In his new collection of three novellas Arkansas, he explores new territory. Droll, surprising, and very sexy, these works often shock and startle the reader. In "The Term Paper Artist," a writer named David Leavitt writes school papers for cute undergraduates in exchange for sexual favors, and in "Saturn Street." a gay man who delivers lunches to homebound people with AIDS falls in love with one of his clients. Beautifully written and alarmingly funny, Arkansas is one of the best works of gay fiction in years.

About the Author:

David Leavitt's first collection of stories, Family Dancing, was published when he was just twenty-three and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Prize. The Lost Language of Cranes was made into a BBC film, and While England Sleeps was short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize. With Mark Mitchell, he coedited The Penguin Book of Short Stories, Pages Passed from Hand to Hand, and cowrote Italian Pleasures. Leavitt is a recipient of fellowships from both the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He divides his time between Italy and Florida.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0395837049
• ISBN 13: 9780395837047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 198