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Alan Turing and the invention of computers
The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer. To solve one of the great mathematica...
Stories
An astonishing collection of short stories--set deep in the twisted heart of middle class America--from one of America's most promising and highly acc...
'One of his generation's most gifted writers.' New York Times 'An amazingly perceptive novel.' San Francisco Chronicle 'Fascinating... lingers in the ...
In this exquisite collection David Leavitt cracks the brittle surfaces of middle-class lives to expose the fears and desires that lie beneath. Subtle,...
Nine masterly stories about the politics of family, community, and history are offered by the author of "Family Dancing", "a wizard at blending levity...
'Florence is the only European city I can think of whose most famous citizens, at least in the last 150 years or so, have all been foreigners.' Thus D...
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity - his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candour - while explaining his work and its implicat...
Three Novellas
Three “sly, self-knowing, and hilarious” novellas from the highly acclaimed author of The Lost Language of Cranes (The New York Times). Here are t...
'Moving and thought-provoking' Literary Review At eighteen, Paul Porterfield aspires to play the piano at the world's great concert halls. So far the ...
A Novel
In 1913, the eccentric G. H. Hardy, Britain's leading mathematician, receives a letter from a self-professed mathematical genius, Indian clerk Sriniva...
Or, A Sure Thing
Leavitt's sharp novel is a multilayered dissection of literary and sexual mores in the get-ahead 80s. Talented freshman Martin Bauman, 19, wins a plac...
As Europe prepares for war during the summer of 1940, two couples - expatriate Americans fleeing Paris and wealthy bohemians beset by the social and s...
Effective Writing Through Pictures
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The brilliant comic novel from the author hailed as 'one of his generation's most gifted writers' by the New York Times 'Cleverly plotted and subtle ....
Hilarious and scorching, Leavitt's first novel in four years is a tribute to the power of home, the lure of success, the mystery of originality, and, ...
Als een Amerikaanse jongeman aan zijn ogenschijnlijk behoudende ouders meedeelt dat hij homoseksueel is, veroorzaakt hij een kettingreactie....
'Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet' Rachel Cusk 'A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel' Jenny Of...
Life and a House in Southern Tuscany
With stunning illustrations and color photographs, this expanded edition of In Maremma recounts the restoration of a dilapidated 1950s farmhouse in so...
The collected stories from one of America's most respected writers...
The Coming Past
Future History: The ComingPast by David Leavitt is a sci-fi thrillerthat weaves the stories of a scientist accused of taking bribes, a murderer,and a ...
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