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David Leavitt (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; First Edition First Printing edition (20 April 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316853658
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316853651
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,053,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'Wonderful' NEW STATESMAN 'A sharp satire on New York literary life ... Leavitt's portrait of the literary world is wickedly apt ... an engaging novel' INDEPENDENT 'A delicacy of wit and a nicely understated sense of irony' GUARDIAN 'A piquant observer of gay manners and sexual mores, Leavitt offers spry asides on literary pretensions and Brat Pack faddism' SUNDAY TIMES 'Funny and absorbing' THE TIMES 'Brisk, shrewd and eminently readable' NEW YORK TIMES --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars At last a return to more meaty form, 20 Feb 2002
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This review is from: Martin Bauman (Paperback)
After several rather dissapointing and shallow works from Mr Leavitt, one of the foremost current gay writers, along comes Martin Bauman.
Set in a not too distant past of New York we see Martin grow from a rather prissy college boy into a fully fledged member of the New York brat pack. Here Leavitt refrains from too much of the usual fumbling and frolicking descriptions to focus on the development of Martin into from a starry eyed young boy into a starry eyed but world weary man. While seeming over laborious in parts, it comes together brilliantly towards the end, the last line will need to be read severtal times before its full resonance becomes clear.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Just Petty, 17 May 2009
By Mr. SD Halliday "Economics Grad Student" (Siena, Italy; Cape Town, South Africa; London, England) - See all my reviews
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Wow. If ever a book captured the pettiness of humanity, this was it. The characters are petty, the storyline is petty, it's all just petty. Leavitt obviously has a strong command of the English language, and he appears capable of chiselling beautiful sentences from dreck, but the book left me dreadfully annoyed. I read and I read in the continuous hope that a likeable character would appear. None did. I read in the expectation of something consequential occurring. Expectation unmet. Supposedly, the book was a semi-autobiographical confession. If so I expect genuine contrition or something resembling apology. There were no genuine apologies or any exculpatory passages; the attempts were thin, lacking substance. Martin Bauman annoyed me greatly. I wouldn't bother. I give it two stars for the occasional beautiful sentence that grew out of the muck.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Well written but with a very selfish cast of characters., 7 Aug 2008
By Philip Thompson "abby1710" (London) - See all my reviews
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This book is well written and initially interesting as to where the main characters life was going to go but as the book progressed I found myself with a cast of characters that were getting more dislikable as the chapters progressed. I nearly gave up reading about 100 pages before the end but decided to continue. I didn't hate this book but found it dissapointing and the character developement was a major weakness.
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2.0 out of 5 stars The emptiness of being a writer/reader
I'm a big fan of David Leavitt and the brilliant characters that he has engulfed his readers in his past writings. However, this book left me feeling nothing. Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2000 by K. W. Cantor

5.0 out of 5 stars Literature, love and what being an artist is all about
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