Dancer From the Dance
A Novel
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · December 5, 2023
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels "A hymn to gay liberation in the city, and to male beauty." — Darryl Pinckney, T, The New York Times Style magazine "Nothing could be more beautiful than Holleran's tableaux of New York, those hot summer city nights when lonely men sit on their stoops or their fire escapes and stare at that endless parade of unattainable lovers." — Boston Globe Andrew Holleran’s landmark novel of a young man's search for love and companionship in New York’s emerging gay world in the 1970s, with a new introduction by Garth Greenwell.
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- Who it’s for
- A 1970s New York gay world frames a restless search for connection.
- Genres
- Gay Fiction, Gay Romance, The Classics
- Published
- HarperCollins, December 5, 2023
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One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels "A hymn to gay liberation in the city, and to male beauty." — Darryl Pinckney, T, The New York Times Style magazine "Nothing could be more beautiful than Holleran's tableaux of New York, those hot summer city nights when lonely men sit on their stoops or their fire escapes and stare at that endless parade of unattainable lovers." — Boston Globe Andrew Holleran’s landmark novel of a young man's search for love and companionship in New York’s emerging gay world in the 1970s, with a new introduction by Garth Greenwell.
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Young, astonishingly beautiful, and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight small-town lawyer for the decadence of New York’s emerging gay scene—an odyssey that takes him from Manhattan’s Everard baths and after hour discos, to lavish orgies on Fire Island and parks after dark. Rescuing Malone from a possessive lover and shepherding him through his immersion in this life of fierce joys and cheap truths is the flamboyant Sutherland, a high-camp quintessential queen. But for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days are close to burning out, and despite Sutherland’s abundant attentiveness and glittering world-weary wisdom, Malone soon realizes what he is truly looking for may not be found in these beautiful places, where life is crowded, and people are forever outrunning their own desires and death.
Glitter and Longing
A 1970s New York gay world frames a restless search for connection.
Come here for
- Immersion in New York’s emerging gay world of the 1970s
- Love and companionship pursued amid fierce joys and uneasy truths
Expect
- A layered pull between beautiful places and the loneliness within them
- City nights, Fire Island days, and desires that refuse easy answers
Where it sits
| Gay Fiction | 94% |
|---|---|
| Gay Romance | 44% |
| The Classics | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Gay Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Psychological Fiction
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- Contemporary Romance
- Gay Romance
- New Adult Romance
- Coming-of-Age
- Authors
- Andrew Holleran, Garth Richard Greenwell, Garth Greenwell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- December 5, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- The Classics