A Place I’ve Never Been (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Leavitt
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: New York, Paris, rural Italy, and American suburbia
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Middle classes, American Dream, 1980’s, Adultery, Death or dying, Identity
- Locales: United States, New York, Paris, France, Italy
David Leavitt’s first collection of stories, Family Dancing (1984), published when he was twenty-three years old, consisted of nine stories that mostly dealt with the tensions that strain the delicate fabric of family relationships—sex, divorce, illness, death. A central tension was that of a young gay male trying to come to terms with his homosexuality or trying to find acceptance within his family. In A Place I’ve Never Been, Leavitt’s second collection, eight of the ten stories focus on conflicts arising out of the gay life-style. In this book, however,...
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