"David Cleveland is a major American novelist whose ear for language, eye for both natural and artistic detail, cultural scholarship, understanding of human character, and feel for American social reality make him a national treasure."
—The Washington Examiner, Walter Russell Mead,
global view columnist at the Wall Street Journal
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About the Author
David Adams Cleveland is a novelist and art historian whose latest novel is Reunions. His previous novel, Gods of Deception, was a 2022 finalist for historical fiction, while his third novel, Time's Betrayal was acclaimed best historical novel of 2017. His art history book from Abbeville, A History of American Tonalism, has won numerous awards.
About Reunions
At their 40-year Princeton reunion, four former tennis teammates—Gini, Annette, Bianca, and Apolonia—gather to reminisce. Their weekend takes an eerie turn when they meet Jacob, a classmate of Gini's daughter and son of Jake Burrage, their brilliant former classmate and the reclusive founder of Burrage Pharmaceuticals. Jacob knows uncanny details about the women—their affairs, ambitions, and betrayals—knowledge no son should possess. As he probes long-buried secrets, the friends must confront shocking truths about the past and a chilling possibility born from biotech's most audacious frontiers.
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Praise for David's Books
“A magisterial achievement.”
—Medium: The Reading Lists
(on Gods of Deception)
“Gods of Deception is a powerful novel about guilt, family, art and spies, which spans generations going back to the Cold War and America's hunt for Communists in the 1950s. With Russia reemerging as a belligerent force in world politics, it's also a very timely read.”
—Crime Fiction Lover on Gods of Deception
“This monumental work is in a league of its own and a class by itself. Time's Betrayal is a large-hearted American epic that deserves the widest possible, most discriminating of readerships.”
—Bruce Olds, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author for Raising Holy Hell and The Moments Lost onTime's Betrayal
“David Adams Cleveland uses his gifts as a storyteller to imagine deeper human truths behind the headlines. Gods of Deception is a lushly vivid tale of a haunted time.”
—Evan Thomas, author of The Very Best Men and Being Nixon (on Gods of Deception)
“Operating on many levels, Love’s Attraction… is a spellbinding journey of identities, inheritance, art, secrets, and inexplicable passion, whatever ‘passion’ might imply… Cleveland is a literate writer of staggering talent…”
—Eleanor Hubbard, NPR on Love’s Attraction
“Time's Betrayal is a vast, rich, endlessly absorbing novel engaging with the great and enduring theme of literary art, the quest for an identity. David Adams Cleveland has instantly taken a prominent place on my personal list of must-read authors.”
—Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain on Time's Betrayal
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