"The story of youth and beauty and money and drugs. It is love that Malone is longing for, and soon he will have to set himself free.
An unbridled world of dance parties, saunas, deserted parks and orgies-at its center Malone befriends the flamboyant, Sutherland, who takes this new arrival under his preened wing.īut for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days, are close to burning out. Young, divinely beautiful and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight, small town lawyer for the disco-lit decadence of New York's gay scene. Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which I longed." -Rupert Everett Despite Fire Island’s outsized place in the gay imagination fuelled by its appearance in classic novels such as Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance (1978) or the recent romcom Fire. Some might point to the fact that the novel depicts a golden era in gay history, which has since been lost and romanticized: 1970s New York City. The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation" - Harpers Andrew Holleran Dancer from the Dance Kindle Edition by Andrew Holleran (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 501 ratings 4.0 on Goodreads 7,272 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 75.95 1 Used from 75.95 3 Collectible from 449.00 'Astonishingly beautiful. How or why Dancer from the Dance has become the iconic piece that it is today, Holleran can’t say. Published in 1978, the novel captures the time post-Stonewall and pre-AIDS where sexual freedom was celebrated and the future appeared limitless. Now in audio for the first time! Award-winning actor and two-time Tony Award nominee David Pittu narrates one of the most influential books in gay literature.Īndrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance defined gay life in late 1970s New York.
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