Online The Lost Language of Cranes Books Download Free

The Lost Language of Cranes

David Leavitt

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 5696 Users | 252 Reviews

Details Based On Books The Lost Language of Cranes

Title	:	The Lost Language of Cranes
Author	:	David Leavitt
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	May 2nd 2005 by Bloomsbury USA (first published 1986)
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. Gay. GLBT. Queer

Narration Concering Books The Lost Language of Cranes

David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss.

Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own crisis: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to this family is Philip's father's own struggle with his latent homosexuality, realized only in his Sunday afternoon visits to gay porn theaters. Philip's admission to his parents and his father's hidden life provoke changes that forever alter the landscape of their worlds.

Be Specific About Books Toward The Lost Language of Cranes

Original Title:	The Lost Language of Cranes
ISBN:	1582345732 (ISBN13: 9781582345734)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)

Rating Based On Books The Lost Language of Cranes

Ratings: 3.96 From 5696 Users | 252 Reviews

Weigh Up Based On Books The Lost Language of Cranes

It's a wonderful book. Great style, hard theme, easy read.

This is a coming of age story for two men who are father and son, both of them gay. The book proceeds to tell how the son, Philip, finds the courage to tell his parents about his sexual orientation now that he has a special man in his life, while the father, Owen, lives in a state of denial about his own sexual preferences, hiding it from his wife and son, though he grows more careless of his secret as the book wears on. The story takes place in the 1980's, so it is rather dated. Though I

3.5To think! A world where the Upper West Side is 'gentrifying!' Before my time, before my time...David Leavitt's 'The Lost Language of Cranes' gives its reader a seamlessly gorgeous story from start to finish. It contains characters that are impossible not to invest emotion with, despite their flaws. Like all good books, Leavitt takes no simple view on 'human nature', instead painting a vast, multigenerational picture of attitudes towards honesty and sexualitybut most importantly, languages of

I always find it hard to review a two-star book, because the inevitable question is 'well why did you read it?' I read this because it was sort of hinted to me that Leavitt is a kind of American Alan Hollinghurst. However, his writing lacks the grace and style of Hollinghurst, and his characters lack the depth and complexity.Essentially this is a book about miserable people written in lifeless prose. As a contrast, I'm reading Howard Jacobson at the moment, who writes about miserable people with

After reading the blurb for this one, I was a bit concerned that I was setting myself up for the Manhattan Hollinghurst. Luckily, this wasn't the case. There's none of the pretentiousness in Leavitt's writing, he's a straight forward, but evocative writer, and the whole book had more humanity in the first 20 pages than the whole of the damned Swimming Pool Library. It is guilty of being overly romantic in the odd place, and the ghoulish spectre of AIDS feels old fashioned, which is enitrely not

I've kept this on my shelves for a long time, never really feeling in the right mood to read it as I somehow expected the book to be too keen on political correctness, to centred on the homosexual theme everyone knows about when purchasing this book, and I also kind of thought it'd be too eighties. I don't know where these ideas came from, and I'm so glad that I was completely wrong.The Lost Language of Cranes is one of the most engaging books I've read in a while with characters that are so

The literal only problem was this book was the frequent use of the word "lover"