Bright Monday
A Novel
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Bright Monday
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David Leavitt
The story of a 1990s romance between two men rekindled decades later in Milan—from two-time PEN/Faulkner finalist David Leavitt, “a phenomenal and prescient writer” (Justin Torres).
Adam is translating into English his Italian friend Valeria’s new novel—a surprise bestseller she published under a pseudonym. Two days before he is scheduled to return home from Milan, he leans down to pet an especially sweet terrier and looks up to behold Francesco, the charismatic, rakish architect he hasn’t seen in three decades. When Francesco invites Adam to an Easter lunch with his family, including his wife and grandchildren, Adam finds himself drawn back into the affair that began in New York City at the height of the AIDS pandemic.
Alighting alternately on two historical moments, two cities, and two very different pandemics, Bright Monday explores with humor and compassion the ripple effects of a youthful entanglement born during one public health crisis and resurrected in the wake of another—a meditation on youth and memory shadowed by secrecy and denial yet illuminated by the persistent and bright possibility of rebirth.
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Reviews
Both comical and poignant . . . Past and present collide in this funny, rueful novel.
Bright Monday is a gorgeous--and sexy--evocation of lost love, youthful longing, and the way that time folds and expands many times during a life. David Leavitt is one of the most sensitive, perceptive, wryly funny writers out there. Bright Monday is utterly delicious.
What a delight! Bright Monday is an exquisite novel about the push and pull between the comfort of today and the excitement of returning to a past that was at once complicated, problematic, and thrilling. A wonderful book by a brilliant writer.
In David Leavitt's beautiful novel, Bright Monday, the narrator remarks that 'uncertainty was the only place I felt safe.' In this sweeping novel that places itself during the AIDS crisis and then the pandemic, Leavitt writes with such tenderness and clarity about the ways in which life, even as it spools out into the future, offers moments of reconnection, of reimagination, and the hope that uncertainty may someday give way to something beautiful. In Leavitt's capable hands, it always does.
Wickedly funny and emotionally expansive.
Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet.
Richly imagined [and] impressive.
Ambitious, meaty, extensively researched . . . [a] richly layered, rueful portrait. Leavitt has tapped into marvelous material. Stimulating and refreshingly original.
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