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author spotlight
Brad Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of five novels, a novel in verse, four previous volumes of poetry, a collection of light verse, and a book of essays. Among his many awards and honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Grant, and a MacArthur Fellowship. An Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College, he lives with his wife in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 2005, the president of Iceland inducted him into the Order of the Falcon for his writings about Nordic literature.
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The Art Student's War
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.95
In The Art Student’s War, his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has brought off a double feat of imagination: a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday.
The story opens on a sunny spring day as... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.95
In The Art Student’s War, his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has brought off a double feat of imagination: a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday.
The story opens on a sunny spring day as... Read more >
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eBook.
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A Few Corrections
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $15.95
According to his obituary, Wesley Sultan died at the age of 63, leaving behind three children, a wife, an ex-wife, a brother, a sister, and a life-long business career. According to his obituary, Wesley Sultan led a quiet, respectable, and unremarkable life. Our narrator, however, is about to discover that nothing... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2002
Price: $15.95
According to his obituary, Wesley Sultan died at the age of 63, leaving behind three children, a wife, an ex-wife, a brother, a sister, and a life-long business career. According to his obituary, Wesley Sultan led a quiet, respectable, and unremarkable life. Our narrator, however, is about to discover that nothing... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Friends of Freeland
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $14.00
In this roomy, bawdy, exuberantly comic novel, Brad Leithauser takes us to an imaginary island-country, Freeland, during a crucial election year.
Freeland occupies its own place in the North Atlantic, somewhere between Iceland and Greenland. A geological miracle, it is desolate ("What green is to Ireland, gray is to Freeland") -- and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $14.00
In this roomy, bawdy, exuberantly comic novel, Brad Leithauser takes us to an imaginary island-country, Freeland, during a crucial election year.
Freeland occupies its own place in the North Atlantic, somewhere between Iceland and Greenland. A geological miracle, it is desolate ("What green is to Ireland, gray is to Freeland") -- and... Read more >
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Curves and Angles
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $24.00
In his first collection since the widely acclaimed Darlington’s Fall, Brad Leithauser takes the reader on a bracing poetic journey. Curves and Angles begins in a warm, soft, populated world (these are the curves of the human body, as well as the elliptical pathways of human motivation), and it concludes in... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $24.00
In his first collection since the widely acclaimed Darlington’s Fall, Brad Leithauser takes the reader on a bracing poetic journey. Curves and Angles begins in a warm, soft, populated world (these are the curves of the human body, as well as the elliptical pathways of human motivation), and it concludes in... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Curves and Angles
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $16.00
Brad Leithauser’s “most satisfying collection in years” (Library Journal), a bracing poetic journey that begins in a warm, peopled world and concludes in a cooler and more private place, embracing love of the human and natural world in all its states. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $16.00
Brad Leithauser’s “most satisfying collection in years” (Library Journal), a bracing poetic journey that begins in a warm, peopled world and concludes in a cooler and more private place, embracing love of the human and natural world in all its states. Read more >
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The Art Student's War
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.95
In The Art Student’s War, his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has brought off a double feat of imagination: a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday.
The story opens on a sunny spring day as... Read more >
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $28.95
In The Art Student’s War, his sixth novel, Brad Leithauser has brought off a double feat of imagination: a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday.
The story opens on a sunny spring day as... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Curves and Angles
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $16.00
Brad Leithauser’s “most satisfying collection in years” (Library Journal), a bracing poetic journey that begins in a warm, peopled world and concludes in a cooler and more private place, embracing love of the human and natural world in all its states.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $16.00
Brad Leithauser’s “most satisfying collection in years” (Library Journal), a bracing poetic journey that begins in a warm, peopled world and concludes in a cooler and more private place, embracing love of the human and natural world in all its states.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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A Few Corrections
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95
This moving and resourceful novel by one of our most acclaimed writers opens with a newspaper obituary. The deceased is Wesley Sultan, a respectable, unexceptional, civic-minded midwestern businessman. But the novel’s first sentence hints of mysterious revelations to come: “There are at least a dozen errors here.”
Step by step, the book’s... Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.95
This moving and resourceful novel by one of our most acclaimed writers opens with a newspaper obituary. The deceased is Wesley Sultan, a respectable, unexceptional, civic-minded midwestern businessman. But the novel’s first sentence hints of mysterious revelations to come: “There are at least a dozen errors here.”
Step by step, the book’s... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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