cover image Equal Affections

Equal Affections

David Leavitt. Harper Perennial, $12 (268pp) ISBN 978-0-06-097287-5

Leavitt's second novel follows the four members of the Cooper family through the mother's illness and death. ``In understated, perfectly targeted prose, Leavitt illuminates the ordinariness of his characters, giving them and their sorrows and joys a long-lasting afterglow,'' observed PW. (Jan.)