Andrew Holleran's first novel, Dancer from the Dance, was published in 1978. He is also the author of the novels Nights in Aruba and The Beauty of Men; a book of essays, Ground Zero (reissued as Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited); a collection of short stories, In September, the Light Changes; and a novella, Grief.
"An astonishingly beautiful book. The best gay novel written by
anyone of our generation." -- Harper's magazine"Holleran summons up
the most lyrical prose imaginable. The novel is a banquet." --
Boston Globe"We have never been to Fire Island and we have never
lived on the Lower East Side, but we have looked for love and we
are growing older, and this book is the story of our life." -- New
York magazine"Compelling characters and a vision of society,
straight and gay." -- Village Voice"Beautifully written, evocative,
and hilarious. . . . Holleran has the uncanny ability to combine
emotional abandon and high comedy." -- New Republic"Superb . . .
erotic heat percolates through these pages." -- New York Times Book
Review"Through the sweat and haze of longing come piercing insights
- about the closeness of gay male friendship, about the vanity and
imperfections of men. The more one reads the novel, we realise that
what Holleran has given us is our very own queer (queerer?) Great
Gatsby: its decadence, its fear, its violence, its ecstasy, its
transience." -- The Guardian"Andrew Holleran's 'Dancer from the
Dance, '. . . is bathed in melancholy gorgeousness, as attuned as
any of its characters to 'the animal bliss of being alive.'" -- The
New Yorker"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"Dancer from the Dance
accomplished for the 1970's what The Great Gatsby achieved for the
1920's ― the glamorization of a decade and a culture." -- Edmund
White"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...the story of a new queer future." --
Michael Cunningham, New York Times Magazine"Dancer From the Dance
holds a sacred place in gay literary history for its seductive
glimpse of post-Stonewall and pre-AIDS New York City." -- The
Nation"A hymn to gay liberation in the city, and to male beauty."
-- Darryl Pinckney, New York Times Style magazine, T
"A book of spirited elegance and energy." -- New York magazine"One
of the most famous works of gay literature." -- New York Times"Set
in New York in a pre-AIDS era, Holleran brilliantly captures a
generation of men for whom hedonism is never-ending, while desire,
loneliness and a restless wish for love continually jostle." --
British Vogue
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