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The Lost Language of Cranes

by David Leavitt

1986 319 pages eng ★ 3.8 (4 ratings)

David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss. Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who realize…

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