In 'Saturn Street' a disaffected screenwriter in Los Angeles volunteers to deliver lunches to homebound AIDS patients and falls in love with one of his clients. In 'The Wooden Anniversary', Nathan and Celia - characters familiar to readers of Leavitt's short story collections - reunite awkwardly, at the cooking school Celia runs in Tuscany, after a five-year separation. And in 'The Term Paper Artist', a writer named David Leavitt, hiding out at his father's house in the aftermath of a publishing scandal, experiences literary rejuvenation when he agrees to write term papers for UCLA undergraduates in exchange for sex. Comical, lyrical and speculative, in these three innovative novellas David Leavitt explores the themes of escape, exile and homecoming with a keen eye for human weakness - and strength.
- ISBN10 0349109540
- ISBN13 9780349109541
- Publish Date 3 December 1997 (first published 6 November 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 September 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Abacus
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English