Equal Affections (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Leavitt
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Primarily the late 1980’s
- Setting: California and New Jersey
- Principal Characters: Louise Cooper, Nat Cooper, Danny Cooper, April Cooper, Walter Bayles
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life
- Locales: California
Equal Affections is David Leavitt’s third book—his career is just beginning—but one reviewer has already dubbed him “the poet of the New American Family.” That is a particularly significant tribute to this young writer, for many of his fictional families, from his highly praised collection of short stories, Family Dancing (1984), through his first novel, The Lost Language of Cranes (1986), and now his second, Equal Affections, includes homosexuals as main characters. Although his body of work to date is not large, Leavitt has already contributed an...
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