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In Arkansas, David Leavitt brings together three novellas that explore the themes of escape and exile. In "Saturn Street," a disaffected screenwriter in Los Angeles volunteers to deliver lunches to homebound AIDS patients only to find himself falling in love with one of them. In "The Wooden Anniversary," Nathan and Celia - characters familiar to readers of Leavitt's short story collections - reunite awkwardly at Celia's cooking school in Tuscany 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…

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Editions

12 editions · 4 languages
  • Paperback · English · 1998
    Abacus · 198 pages · 9780349110424
  • Hardcover · English · 1997
    Houghton Mifflin · 208 pages · 9780316641630
  • Paperback · English · 1997
    Houghton · 208 pages · 9780349109541
  • Other · English · 2015
    Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9780349141237
  • Other · English · 2012
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 9780544080027
  • Other · English · 2012
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 9781299880030
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