William Logan Penguin Books, 1999 ISBN: 0140587985 Logan’s newest work, The Night Battle, reveals to readers a rich, sensuous world where even pigeons “roost in judgment” like “mottled, maculate angels” and Long Island mothers lounge at a swimming club drinking the politeness of servants “like a sin” while “summer broke the dark with lightning storms.” A […]
William Logan Penguin USA, 2003 ISBN: 0142003026 One of the most technically gifted poets of his generation, William Logan here presents four sequences, each of which is haunted by the battered history of the enchanted city of Venice: two refugees from Nazi Germany replay a version of the Aeneid that shadows their lives in and out of […]
William Logan Penguin Books, 1998 ISBN: 0140588949 Vanity corrupts the empires on the grand tour from ancient Rome to revolutionary Iran, from Europe in the Age of Reason to America in the Age of Television. The poems find Ovid in a London gentlemen’s club, Romeo and Juliet in Florida, and the varnished splendors of religion […]
David Leavitt Bloomsbury USA, 2004 ISBN: 1582341885 It’s 1969, and Judith “Denny” Denham has just begun an affair with Dr. Ernest Wright, a psychology professor at Wellspring University, who just happens to be her boss. But her position in the Wright household is not merely as a mistress. Ernest’s wife, Nancy, has taken Denny under […]
David Leavitt Bloomsbury USA, 2007 ISBN: 978-1-5969-1040-9 On a January morning in 1913, G.H. Hardy – eccentric, charismatic, and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age – receives in the mail a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims […]
David Leavitt Bloomsbury USA, 2002 ISBN: 1582342393 David Leavitt brings the wonders and mysteries of Florence alive, illuminating why it is, and always has been, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. The lively account of expatriate life in the ‘city of the lily’ begins by asking why Florence has always proven […]
David Leavitt Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000 ISBN: 0395902436 David Leavitt’s deliciously sharp new novel is a multilayered dissection of literary and sexual mores in the get-ahead eighties, when outrageous success lay seductively within reach of any young writer ambitious enough to grab it. At the dawn of the Reagan era, Martin Bauman – nineteen, clever, […]
William Logan University of Arkansas Press, 1998 ISBN: 155728475X Offered in homage to American poet Donald Justice, this book contains memoirs, reviews, and assessments of Justice’s work from friends, critics, and poets. The retrospections and essays focus attention on Justice’s singular talents, his poems, and the teaching skills that have made him one of the […]
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David Leavitt Mariner Books, 1995 ISBN: 0395752868 David Leavitt has earned high praise for his empathetic portrayal of human sexuality and the complexities of intimate relationships. Now, with While England Sleeps, 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. […]
David Leavitt W. W. Norton, 2005 ISBN: 0393052362 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, […]
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