Full name: Arkansas: Three Novellas

Author: David Leavitt Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: LGBT, Gay, Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, Short Stories Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780395901281 0395901286

Here are three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous. In "Saturn Street," a disaffected L.A. screenwriter delivers lunches to homebound AIDS patients, only to find himself falling in love with one of them. In "The Wooden Anniversary," Nathan and Celia - familiar characters from Leavitt's story collections - reunite 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. Similar books: In September, the Light Changes by Andrew Holleran The Page Turner by David Leavitt A Place I've Never Been by David Leavitt Sucking Sherbet Lemons by Michael Carson Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley Skinned Alive by Edmund White The Family of Max Desir by Robert Ferro The Man of the House by Stephen McCauley Uncle Max by Chris Kenry Everybody Loves You by Ethan Mordden Living Upstairs by Joseph Hansen The Salt Point by Paul Russell Like People in History by Felice Picano Sacred Lips of the Bronx by Douglas Sadownick Some Men Are Lookers by Ethan Mordden Family Dancing by David Leavitt The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis History of Violence by Edouard Louis Breakfast with Scot by Michael Downing The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst