Three "sly, self-knowing, and hilarious" novellas from the highly acclaimed author of The Lost Language of Cranes ( The New York Times).
Here are three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous. In "Saturn Street," a disaffected LA screenwriter delivers lunches to homebound AIDS patients, only to find himself falling in love with one of them. In "The Wooden Anniversary," Nathan and Celia-familiar characters from Leavitt's story collections-reunite after a five-year separation. And in "The Term-Paper Artist," a writer named David Leavitt, hiding out at his father's house in the aftermath of a publishing scandal, experiences literary rejuvenation when he agrees to write term papers for UCLA undergraduates in exchange for sex.
"Confessional, audacious and outrageous... This is classic Leavitt-writing with subtlety, maturity and compassion about the complexity and fragility of human relationships." - Los Angeles Times Book Review