Arkansas : three novellas / David Leavitt

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Abacus , 1997Description: 198 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780349110424
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • FIC LEA 21
Contents:
The term paper artist -- The wooden anniversary -- Saturn Street.
Summary: Here are three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous. In "Saturn Street," a disaffected L.A. 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.
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Fiction / Ficción Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles General FIC LEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Fiction 004394
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The term paper artist -- The wooden anniversary -- Saturn Street.

Here are three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous. In "Saturn Street," a disaffected L.A. 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.

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