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Brad Leithauser
Books in Order: 10 titles
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The Promise of Elsewhere
- Mar-2019
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A comic novel about a Midwestern professor who tries to prop up his failing prospects for happiness by setting out on the Journey of a Lifetime. Louie Hake is forty-three and teaches architectural history at a third-rate college in Michigan. His s...
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The Art Student's War
- Nov-2009
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In "The Art Student's War," his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has brought off a double feat of imagination: a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday. The ...
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Darlington's Fall
- Mar-2002
- / General Fiction
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In this one-of-a-kind novel that bends borders, a happy marriage of poetry and fiction, the hero is Russel Darlington, a born naturalist and an unlikely romantic hero.We meet him in the year 1895 -- a seven-year-old boy first glimpsed chasing a fro...
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A Few Corrections
- Apr-2001
- / General Fiction
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According to his obituary, Wesley Sultan died at the age of 63, leaving behind three children, a wife, an ex-wife, a brother, a sister, and a life-long business career. According to his obituary, Wesley Sultan led a quiet, respectable, and unrema...
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The Friends of Freeland
- Feb-1997
- / General Fiction
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In this roomy, bawdy, exuberantly comic novel, Brad Leithauser takes us to an imaginary island-country, Freeland, during a crucial election year.Freeland occupies its own place in the North Atlantic, somewhere between Iceland and Greenland. A geologi...
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Equal Distance
- Dec-1984
- / General Fiction
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Danny Ott, 23, on leave from Harvard Law School and a Wall-Street-firm internship, goes to Kyoto, Japan--to do research with a Japanese law professor. But Kyoto is bewildering Danny feels lucky when he happens two American trust funders who guide him...
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The Mail from Anywhere
The scenery of Iceland, the South seas, and the American South, the awakening of first love, and the meaning of speech are some of the topics treated in this collection of poems by the novelist and critic...