David Leavitt

Standard Name: Leavitt, David

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Reception Sybille Bedford
David Leavitt writes of the paired novels A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (with an intriguing echo of Churchill on last-ditch military resistance which is aimed at drawing out the importance of...
Reception Rose Tremain
David Leavitt in the New York Times Sunday Book Review called this book bold and risky in its design and authoritative in its storytelling.
Leavitt, David. “Place of Last Resort”. New York Times Sunday Book Review, 22 Oct. 2010.
Textual Features Sybille Bedford
Reviewer Pamela Petro notes the importance in SB 's works of her own distinctly worldly voice, whose deliberately knowing, clever, and aristocratic qualities are likely on occasion to irk more modern sensibilities.
Petro, Pamela. “A traveler’s tales”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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David Leavitt

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Leavitt, David. “Place of Last Resort”. New York Times Sunday Book Review.