Dancer from the Dance
- Auteur: Andrew Holleran (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1978
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Vintage Classics
- Verschijnt: 5 juni 2025
- Omvang: 288 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: £ 9,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
Andrew Holleran Dancer from the Dance recensie en review
- “Astonishingly beautiful… The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation.” (Harpers)
- “A life changing read for me. Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which I longed – stuck in closed-on-Sunday’s London.” (Rupert Everett)
- “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)
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1978 van Andrew Holleran
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 1970’s gay scene. Joining an unbridled world of dance parties, saunas, deserted parks and orgies – at its centre Malone befriends the flamboyant queen, Sutherland, who takes this new arrival under his preened wing.
But for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days, are close to burning out. It is love that Malone is longing for, and soon he will have to set himself free.
Andrew Holleran was born in Aruba in 1944. 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. His real name is Eric Garber.