Books by David Leddick and Complete Book Reviews
David Leddick, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-18174-1
The protagonist of Leddick's second novel (after My Worst Date) is Harry Potter, who danced in the corps de ballet for the Metropolitan Opera Company in the 1950s (as did Leddick himself). The story is related mainly in flashback by a present-day...
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David Leddick, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14689-4
Hugo, the hero of this uneven and dispiriting first novel, is a 16-year-old Miami high-school student whose first real affair is with Glenn, his mother's boyfriend--a premise that a gifted novelist could spin into giddy farce, erotic fiction or a...
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David Leddick, Author Alyson Books $15.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-55583-774-7
Interviews with gay men presently or formerly married to women form the backbone of this lackluster compilation. Leddick's previous book on New York City Ballet co-founder Lincoln Kirstein and his circle (Intimate Companions, 2001) covered some of...
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David Leddick, Author, Leddick, Author St. Martin's Press $29.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-20898-1
""Ars longa, Vita brevis,"" noted Hippocrates, but time gave art a run for its money in the decades-long careers of the artists, writers, photographers, producers and salon-keepers chronicled in Leddick's group biography of Lynes, Cadmus, Kirstein,...
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