Shelter in Place is a novel about house and home, furniture and rooms, safety and freedom and the invidious ways in which political upheaval can undermine even the most seemingly impregnable foundations. Eva is the novel's polestar, a woman who moves through her days accompanied by a roving, carefully curated salon. · Shelter in Place is set in a world completely unfamiliar to me, the New York City dwellers with second homes in Connecticut. David Leavitt creates a funny cast of characters in this book that gives shelter a new meaning/5. So a character in David Leavitt’s novel, Shelter in Place, quotes T. S. Eliot. Leavitt has written a brilliant comedy of manners about the convoluted ways that people of taste, affluence, privilege, breeding, etc. avoid looking too closely at their own part in said reality. Shelter in Place is a book about people who are essentially spectators, bystanders, but who wish to be more—to be people of action. Among the .
David Leavitt returns with his signature "coolly elegant prose" (O, The Oprah Magazine) to deliver a comedy of manners for the Trump era. - The New York Times Book Review on THE TWO HOTEL FRANCFORTS "David Leavitt's lean, stylish new novel unfurls like a classic Hollywood film, crackling. Shelter in Place. David Leavitt. Buy Now. I never lost my sense of taste with COVID, but I'm beginning to think I may have lost my sense of humor — or, perhaps, my patience with the sort of deliberately, mockably tendentious conversations Shelter in Place is filled with. Most take place in country houses - but not all. Henry Green's Party Going, for instance, takes place in a hotel - a deviation from the rule that will, I trust, pass muster for those of you who have read this magnificent novel. Shelter in Place by David Leavitt is published by Bloomsbury.
Shelter in Place is a novel about house and home, furniture and rooms, safety and freedom and the invidious ways in which political upheaval can undermine even the most seemingly impregnable foundations. Eva is the novel's polestar, a woman who moves through her days accompanied by a roving, carefully curated salon. David Leavitt’s novel “Shelter in Place” dissects the complaints of pampered New Yorkers wringing their hands at a country they no longer recognize. David Leavitt's new novel Shelter in Place aims for sparkling social comedy — but it's let down by a cast of privileged, shallow characters you wouldn't want to spend your lockdown with.
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