A Place I've Never Been

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 194. Quarter-bound brown cloth over rust-red paperboards, lettered in silver foil to spine; green endpapers. Untrimmed fore-edges.

Signed by Author to title-page.

Short-listed for the National Book Critics' Award and the PEN/Faulkner Prize. Leavitt's second collection of short stories, principally on gay themes. Title story originally published in an advance excerpt form of 500 copies (250 of which were signed to limitation page). By the author of The Lost Language of Cranes (1986). "Leavitt writes with increased authority and range about love and loss within families and among gay and straight couples." –Publishers Weekly