Dancer from the Dance

Dance from the Dance accomplished for the 1970’s what The Great Gatsby achieved for the 1920’s — the glamorization of a decade and a cultureA life changing read for me. Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which I longed - stuck in closed-on-Sunday’s LondonAn astonishingly beautiful book. The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation * Harper’s *The first gay novel everybody read… It’s the story of youth and beauty and money and drugs. But overarchingly, it’s the story of a new queer future * New York Times Magazine *Beautiful, hilarious, heart-breaking and tenderErotic heat percolates through these pages * The New York Times Book Review *Beautifully written, evocative, and hilarious * The New Republic *Compelling… A vision of society, straight and gay * Village Voice *Despite being of its time, Dancer from the Dance is also timeless: the restless momentum the characters feel, being pulled to the next lover, the next party, the next anecdote… what Holleran has given us is our very own queer (queerer?) Great Gatsby: its decadence, its fear, its violence, its ecstasy * Observer *Dancer From the Dance… [is] the most perfect piece of literature… the two central characters still just really resonate. They blossom with every shade of the gay sensibility, from the very best to the absolutely most despicable… it’s just a perfect book… an absolute masterpiece * Gay Times *

Andrew Holleran was born in Aruba in 1943. After attending Harvard and dropping out of law school he moved to New York City where, after ten years, he wrote his first novel Dancer from the Dance in 1978. Holleran is the author of three other novels, Nights in Aruba, The Beauty of Men, and Grief, and one collection of short stories, In September, the Light Changes. He currently lives in Washington, D.C.