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While England Sleeps Paperback - 1995
by David Leavitt
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- Title While England Sleeps
- Author David Leavitt
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 284
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Boston
- Date 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0395752868I4N00
- ISBN 9780395752869 / 0395752868
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.41 x 5.51 x 0.79 in (21.36 x 14.00 x 2.01 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, London (England) - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95030964
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
David Leavitt has earned high praise for his empathetic portrayal of human sexuality and the complexities of intimate relationships. Now, with While England Sleeps, available for the first time in two years, Leavitt moves beyond precisely controlled domestic drama to create a historical novel, one that has greater breadth and resonance than anything he has written before. Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, While England Sleeps tells the story of a love affair between the aristocratic young British writer Brian Botsford, who thinks homosexuality is something he will outgrow, and Edward Phelan, a sensitive and idealistic working-class employee of the London Underground and a Communist party member. When the strains of class difference, sexual taboo, and Brian's ambivalence impel Edward to volunteer to fight against Franco in Spain, Brian pursues him across Europe and into the violent chaos of war.