"Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet." –Rachel Cusk

"A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel about all the bewildering ways we seek solace from the people and things that surround us." – Jenny Offill

David Leavitt returns with his signature "coolly elegant prose" (O, The Oprah Magazine) to deliver a comedy of manners for the Trump...

Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening. A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely...