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David Leavitt, ‘one of the major voices in contemporary fiction’ (Guardian), returns with a brilliant new novel about our sense of self and safety in the divisive age of Donald Trump
Eva and Bruce Lindquist swirl at the centre of a stylish group of writers, curators and designers who run New York City. But the year is 2016, and the election of Donald Trump has unsettled a world where the art lining Park Avenue apartment walls stimulates as much conversation as who said what at the latest dinner party.
Disillusioned by a fractured country, Eva lays plans to escape to the historic canals of Venice; meanwhile, Bruce is surprised to find himself greatly affected by his assistant’s future, uncertain upon a drastic change in her health. As their friends’ lives fold into theirs in more complicated ways than ever before, they are all forced to ask of themselves, and of their country, who they are and what is important.
This Was Once the Future is an artful rendering of our present, seemingly bound by the literature, art and politics of the day but informed instead by the timelessness of how we love and hurt.
