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...David Leavitt...
...Lost Language of Cranes, David Leavitt's much-awaited first novel, is a work obsessed with secrets. Leavitt, age 25, has been heralded as the "voice of his generation" in some quarters of the New York literary set, where his 1984 collection of short stories, Family Dancing, won gushing praise. Because he frequently deals with "gay themes," and because Leavitt is himself a homosexual, some have dubbed him the spokesman of young gays as well...
...fact, Leavitt is a spokesman, but not as much for young gays, perhaps, as for young people in general. His writing is passionate and brimming with empathy, and he can throw off lines that reach inside and squeeze. Leavitt writes about a state of still-burgeoning maturity where oppressive neediness drives away lovers, and where secrets imprudently revealed or kept become daggers implanted in people's hearts...
With 18 minutes remaining in the first half, Rob Leavitt outran everyone after crisp passing by Gibbs and LaRaja faked out the Babson defense...
...York: Bonnie Angelo, Joseph N. Boyce, Cathy Booth, Dean Brelis, Thomas McCarroll, Raji Samghabadi, Wayne Svoboda Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Timothy Loughran, Dick Thompson Chicago: Jack E. White, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William J. Mitchell Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, B. Russell Leavitt, Don Winbush Houston: David S. Jackson Miami: Marcia Gauger Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Jon D. Hull, Melissa Ludtke, Michael Riley, Richard Woodbury, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman, Cristina Garcia Denver: Robert C. Wurmstedt...