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Thema: David Leavitt

David Leavitt
(* 23. Juni 1961) ist ein schwuler amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Professor an der University of Florida.
Neben seinen literarischen Beschreibungen von Coming-out und Coming-of-age sind vor allem seine kulturhistorischen Beiträge zum schwule Leben bedeutend.

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Christopher Coe: I Look Divine

Christopher Coe: I Look Divine

D 2013, 126 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bruno Gmünder
Nicholas is beautiful, wealthy and hopelessly vain. With his older brother in tow, he jets from one glamorous scene to another. Whether it's in Rome, Madrid, or Mexico, what matters to him most is the admiration of others. Then one day, not even forty and his beauty faded, his life comes to an early end. His brother is left to ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt, Mark Mitchell (eds.): In Maremma

David Leavitt, Mark Mitchell (eds.): In Maremma

Life and a House in Southern Tuscany. USA 2011 (revised, expanded edition), 141 pp. with color photographs, brochure , € 17.95
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Publishers Group West
In 1997 David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell bought a house in southern Tuscany: not a villa but a dilapidated farmhouse dating from the late 1950s and abandoned for more than 20 years. This book recounts the restoration of the house, as well as the gradual process by which two Americans became initiated into a part of Italy - and a ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Indian Clerk

David Leavitt: The Indian Clerk

UK 2008, 488 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Bloomsbury
On a January morning in 1913, G.H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and, at 37, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the most important unsolved mathematical problem of the ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Man Who Knew Too Much

David Leavitt: The Man Who Knew Too Much

USA 2006, 319 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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One of the most important openings to the modern computer was made by Alan Turing - remarkably while he was solving an entirely different problem. Shy and insecure about his middle-class origins, Turing could show those close to him sly humor and bracing candor - even about his homosexuality. He also had one of the keenest minds of the 20th ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Lost Language of Cranes

David Leavitt: The Lost Language of Cranes

UK/USA 2005, 308 pp., pb, € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
David Leavitt's debut novel is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss. It can be considered a gay classic. Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, »The Lost Language of Cranes« tells the story of 25-year-old Philip, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Stories of David Leavitt

David Leavitt: The Stories of David Leavitt

UK 2005, 525 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Bloomsbury
This is the complete collection of short stories from one of America's most respected gay authors. Here, David Leavitt covers a range of challenging themes such as illness, grief and betrayal with his inimitable graceful touch. He takes the reader from Switzerland to San Francisco, and from a young man's attempt to contract the HIV virus to American tourists being ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Body of Jonah Boyd

David Leavitt: The Body of Jonah Boyd

UK 2005, 215 pp., paperback, € 9.29
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It's 1969 and Denny is on her way to the annual Thanksgiving dinner at the Wrights' plush campus house. Denny is more nervous than usual because she has recently begun an affair with Dr Ernest Wright, a psychology professor who happens to be her boss. Needless to say, Ernest's wife Nancy doesn't suspect her more like a servant than a ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt, Mark Mitchell (eds.): The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories

David Leavitt, Mark Mitchell (eds.): The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories

UK 2004, 668 pp., pb, € 16.29
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From the tenderness of the swimming boys in D.H. Lawrence's »A Poem of Friendship« to the explicit sexuality of A.M. Homes's »The Whiz Kids«, with its boys in a bathtub, these 36 stories celebrate both the diversity and commonality of gay experience. Noel Coward's »Me and the Girls«, at once campy and touching, presents an unexpected side of this writer ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: The Page Turner

David Leavitt: The Page Turner

UK 1999, 244 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Abacus
18-year-old Paul Porterfield hopes for a career as a classical pianist and is thrilled to achieve his »debut« turning pages for his idol, Richard Kennington. This would be the only intersection of their careers were it not for a coincidental encounter later that summer in Rome, where Paul and his philistine mother, Pamela, are on vacation. Mutually infatuated, Paul and ... Weiterlesen

David Leavitt: While England Sleeps

David Leavitt: While England Sleeps

UK 1998, 309 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Abacus
A haunting and evocative novel of England in the 1930s when the world was on the edge of chaos. At a meeting of republican sympathisers in London, Brian Botsford, a young middle-class writer and Cambridge graduate, meets Edward Phelan, an idealistic self-educated London Underground worker. They share a mutual attraction. Across the divisions of class they begin an affair in ... Weiterlesen

Bert Büllmann: Vom Ghetto in die Gesellschaft

Bert Büllmann: Vom Ghetto in die Gesellschaft

Der amerikanische homosexuelle Roman der 80er Jahre. D 1991, 175 S., Broschur, € 12.85
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Verlag rosa Winkel - Homosexualität und Literatur 5
Die vorliegende Untersuchung sellt den amerikanischen homosexuellen Roman in seinen bedeutendsten Vertretern zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts dar, u.a. Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt und Edmund White. Hauptthema ist die Frage nach den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer gesellschaftlichen Integration der Homosexuellen, dargestellt am Verhältnis zur Familie und zur schwulen Geschichte sowie an der Bedrohung durch AIDS.

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