Fiction of Gay Interest

Equal Affections
David Leavitt
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
New York, NY, USA

Year


 		1989 1st edition       
Cover / size: hardback / h 24.4 cm * w 16.7 cm / 268 pp

Dustjacket?   yes

ISBN: 155584202X

Arbery Ref:   001049

Condition Very Good

Jacket: unclipped; very slight wear to edges, most noticeable at top of spine; very slight marking on back. Boards (fawn, DL stamp, with grey cloth and silver lettering): slight dents to top edge and top and bottom of spine; very slight bumping of bottom corners. Leading page edges unevenly cut. Small mark on front endpaper.

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"Louise Cooper has had cancer for twenty years. Battling both the slow withdrawal of her husband and the ravages of her disease, Louise must realize that even the kindnesses of her children won't save her. Both siblings have moved away from the California of their childhood: Danny, a lawyer, to the New Jersey suburb where he lives with his lover, Walter, and April, the lesbian daughter and folk singer, to an extravagant life of concerts and travel. Even as Louise realizes that Nat, her husband of forty years, is having an affair, she finds herself suffering a crisis of faith. As the novel - and Louise's life - move toward their inexorable end, David Leavitt once again reveals the depth and compassion of his narrative command."

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Background / Biography:

David Leavitt (born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 23 June 1961) is an American novelist. Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University and a professor at the University of Florida. He has also taught at Princeton. continued on Wikipedia
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"The first time Louise thought she was dying she called Danny and April to the side of her hospital bed and said 'Listen, kids, there's something I want to say toyou both.' April,who had just turned sixteen, shook out her long hair and said, 'Oh, Mom, come on!' but Danny knew to stay quiet.

'No, I'm serious,' Louise said. 'Now I know I've done some things you haven't liked, like not letting you go to that concert, April, because it was too late, or Danny, not letting you go see Rosemary's Baby. But you have to understand, I had my reasons. Just remember as you get older, everyone is somebody's child, but only some people are somebody's mother.' She reached to rearrange her pillow, inadvertently pulling the IV tube taut against her arm. 'Oh, damn it,' she said, 'Nat, can you help me with this goddamned bed, I can never get it right.'"

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