Synopsis
Fiction. In NOBODY'S BABY, Leo Litwak explores both the limits of compassion and the forms of malevolence. Writing with hard-won wisdom about the struggles of family life, Litwak takes us into the hearts of fathers and mothers, children and lovers, all in the throes of love, all yearning to achieve, or at least define, some kind of clarity. Both troubling and profoundly moving, the masterful stories of NOBODY'S BABY are by a writer at the height of his power.
"Long after reading these stories, I find myself feeling for everybody—Lorrie, Paula, Shirley and Wesley, Alice and her son Emory, Heartless Willy. The people in Leo Litwak's fine stories make the reader laugh and cry. NOBODY'S BABY is at once fun and tragic. A most satisfying book."—Maxine Hong Kingston
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About the Author
A recipient of both Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Leo Litwak has written two novels, two works of nonficition, a short story collection, and articles in publications including The New York Times Magazine, Tukkun, and Esquire. In 2001, The Medic, his war memoir was one of the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle Books of the Years. A professor at San Francisco State University for more than thirty years, Leo Litwak lives in San Francisco.
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"Nobody's Baby is the work of an artist of deep compassion and insight, equipped with an impeccable control of storytelling craft." Leonard Gardner
Deeply serious in their engagement, Leo Litwak's stories paradoxically attain a high level of the best kind of wit, that is: precision, concision, an exact naming of reality. Litwak is one of the best writers of our time. Herbert Gold
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