David R. Slavitt

• Jan-1972
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• 1974
• / General Fiction
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• Jul-1979
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• May-1980
• / Suspense
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• Nov-1982
• / General Fiction
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• Jul-1984
• / General Fiction
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Three elderly women--an actress, a brothel madam, and a woman named Alice--dine at the Savoy and discuss Alice in Wonderland, in this fictional exploration of the lives of Lewis Carroll's three favorite photographic models...

• Oct-1988
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• Oct-1989
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• Jan-1992
• / General Fiction
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In these fourteen beautifully crafted stories David R. Slavitt shows his mastery of the form. Elegant, spare, sometimes funny, sometimes elegiac―this collection reflects a writer in admirable control of his craft.

The title story (complete...

• Aug-1994
• / General Fiction
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A satiric tale of human weakness and spiritual growth concerns John Smith, a failed writer and third-rate professor who steals another professor's place at an artists' colony in Italy and finds himself dealing with pretentious bores and a disappearin...

• Apr-1999
• / General Fiction
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These two novellas are prose divertimentos, creating intellectual fun in the playful way they juggle themes, characters, plots, and ideas. In “Lorenzo's Book,” the priest who aided the star-crossed lovers in Romeo and Juliet tells the tale the wa...

• Feb-2003
• / General Fiction
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This first-person narrative mines comedic gold in the narrator's psychological escape from a trio of critical family events: a graduation ceremony, a funeral, and a wedding. The narrator, self-aware and yet deeply depressed, spins out characters in a...

• Sep-2011
• / Historical
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Historical fiction has long ranked somewhere just above romance novels and mysteries in the great chain of literary respectability, yet as David Slavitt points out in his humorous yet loving send-up of the genre, riches might be found in the most unl...

• Mar-2012
• / General Fiction
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While waiting for results from a prostate exam, a writer turns to the example of Marcel Proust and Dr. Édouard Brissaud, Proust's model for Dr. du Boulbon in The Guermantes Way and the man who first documented Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome. Wi...

• Sep-2014
• / Literary
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Fiction. Jewish Studies. A Jewish young man and a gentile girl fall deeply in love in the fifties but he lacks the character (or else has too much) to contemplate intermarriage. This short, vivid novel describes how, over the years, he comes to reali...

• Oct-2014
• / General Fiction
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If a novel is a work of prose of some length, this is a novel--but different in that it is more like life, which has no plots and does not reward virtue or punish vice, and in which characters appear and then, if the author doesn’t kill them off, r...

• Mar-2015
• / General Fiction
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"Fabrications": is a spritely love story that in its odd way recapitulates Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove. A young man and a young woman are in love but don’t have the financial resources they know they will need not just to be comfortable b...

• Jul-2019
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2019
• / Literary
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Fiction. Jewish Studies. A version of Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich, except that it is contemporary, Jewish, and (therefore?) often funny. Tolstoy wasn't much given to humor, though it's a vital part of our visions of ourselves. Vidui is a Hebrew p...

• Jul-2020
• / Psychological Suspense
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Dwindling is a virtuoso work by the author of more than a hundred acclaimed works of fiction, drama, poetry, and translation. In this remarkable novel, David R. Slavitt is simultaneously critic and novelist, ringmaster and clown. He begins his discur...