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Florence, A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
35.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: The Writer and the City | Reading Level: very good
Novelist David Leavitt joins Edmund White and Peter Carey in the acclaimed The Writer and the City series with a scintillating view of Italy's most adored city. Florence is the only European city I can think of whose most famous citizens, at least in the last 150 years or so, have all been foreigners ...Show more
Shelter in Place by David Leavitt
32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet." -Rachel Cusk "A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel about all the bewildering ways we seek solace from the people and things that surround us." - Jenny Offill David Leavitt returns with his signature "coolly ele ...Show more
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to ...Show more
The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
January, 1913, Cambridge. G.H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and 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 ...Show more
The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories by David Leavitt
29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
The diversity - and unity - of gay love and experience in the twentieth century is celebrated in this acclaimed anthology, which includes twenty-one stories from the original collection, published in 1994, together with fifteen new stories. Writers include John Updike, Edna O'Brien, E.M. Forster, Annie ...Show more
The Two Hotel Francforts by David Leavitt
36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon is one of the only neutral ports left in Europe - a city filled with spies, crowned heads and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe passage to New York on the S. S. Manhattan, two couples meet: P ...Show more
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