Family Dancing: Stories

✍ Scribed by Leavitt, David

• Book ID: 107901922
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 192 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781620407080

✦ Synopsis

Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just twenty-three, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: "remarkably gifted" (The Washington Post), with "a genius for empathy" (The New York Times Book Review) and "a knowledge of others' lives . . . that a writer twice his age might envy" (USA Today). "Regardless of age," wrote the New York Times , "few writers so effortlessly achieve the sense of maturity and earned compassion so evident in these pages."

In "Territory," a well-intentioned, liberal mother, presiding over her local Parents of Lesbians and Gays chapter, finds her acceptance of her son's sexuality shaken when he arrives home with a lover. In the title story, a family extended through divorce and remarriage dances together at the end of a summer party--in the recognition that they are still bound by the very forces that split them apart. Tender...