The Washington Post, September 23rd, 2001
THE MARBLE QUILT By David Leavitt Houghton Mifflin. 241 pp. $24 Many of the stories in David Leavitt's new collection are born out of the realities of death and disease -- and the often maddening illogic of both -- in the lives of Americans, mainly homosexuals. This isn't to say that humor is entirely lacking in these pages. "The List," a postmodern epistolary story of sorts, taking the form of a series of e-mails among a musicologist, a devious collector of musical memorabilia and a pianist, is hilarious, not to mention sly. But for the most part, a darker terrain is explored here, whether t...
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