The Stories of David Leavitt

A must-read for all fans of Edmund White, Tobias Wolff and Douglas Coupland David Leavitt is one of America's brightest authors with a huge international following The Marble Quilt has never been published in the UK before

The collected stories from one of America's most respected writersThis is a complete collection of moving, elegant and often witty short stories from one of America's most respected writers. Here, David Leavitt covers a range of challenging themes such as illness, grief and betrayal with his inimitable graceful touch. He takes the reader from Switzerland to San Francisco, and from a young man's attempt to contract the HIV virus to American tourists being startled by the local conventions in Italy. Bringing together "Family Dancing" (a finalist for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Prize), "A Place I've Never Been" and "The Marble Quilt", this edition affirms David Leavitt's mastery of the short-story form.