· Family Dancing, David Leavitt’s first collection of short stories, describes a world of car crashes, cancers, alienation, guilty trysts, subtle betrayals, and spaceships; but it’s not soap opera. · In the title story, a family extended through divorce and remarriage dances together at the end of a summer party-in the recognition that they are still bound by the very forces that split them apart. Tender and funny, these stories reveal the intricacies and Author: David Leavitt. · Family Dancing is such a book, collecting nine stories by a young writer, David Leavitt, who was graduated from Yale University in Indeed, his dust-jacket photograph depicts a .
Of the nine stories contained, most were wonderfuly written (Leavitt has a way with words, and when reading his writing, it is like sipping a sweet drink that goes down smooth and cool.) The most wonderful stories in this volume are "Territory," "The Lost Cottage," "Danny in Transit," "Family Dancing," "Out Here," and "Dedicated. 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: "remarkably gifted" (The Washington Post), with "a genius for empathy" (The New York Times Book Review) and "a knowledge of others' lives that a writer twice his age might envy" (USA Today). Family Dancing is such a book, collecting nine stories by a young writer, David Leavitt, who was graduated from Yale University in Indeed, his dust-jacket photograph depicts a spectacled.
'Family Dancing' is a collection of short stories written by David Leavitt when he was in his early twenties. It is remarkable thata young man can write with such sensitivity. The prose is very fluid, and the characterizations are quite realistic. Quite remarkable considering these are *short* stories, not novels. Find Family Dancing by Leavitt, David at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. In Family Dancing, published in and Leavitt's very first story collection, we see an author already in full command of his craft. Whether tracking a mother dying of cancer ("Counting Months"), witnessing the dissolution of a family ("The Lost Cotta To say that David Leavitt is a consummate writer of gay literary fiction doesn't do him justice.
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