Ebook {Epub PDF} Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran

 · Dimensions: x x 18 mm. MEDIA REVIEWS. ' Dancer from the Dance accomplished for the 's what The Great Gatsby achieved for the 's - the glamorization of a decade and a culture' - Edmund White. 'A life changing read for me.5/5(1).  · Dancer from the Dance is kind of like the gay Great Gatsby in a way. The narrator has always reminded me of Nick Carraway. The novel is just so beautifully written and really does kind of "set up" what's to come in the plague years of '80s even though clearly Holleran had no idea what was about to . First published in , Dancer from the Dance is widely considered the greatest, most exciting novel of the post-Stonewall generation. Told with wit, eroticism and unashamed lyricism, it remains a heart-breaking love letter to New York's hedonistic past, and a testament to the brilliance of our passions as they burn brightest. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALAN HOLLINGHURST The perfect read for fans Offer Count:

Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran, , New American Library edition, in English. Andrew Holleran's novel, Dancer From the Dance, is about gay men in s New York looking for love—and falling for the city www.doorway.ru romantic, elegiac tone has much in common with F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany'www.doorway.ru three of these stories meditate on the power of beauty, mystery, doom, glamour, summer, and romance. DANCER FROM THE DANCE by Andrew Holleran. Here is an American novelist who, at the very least, is refreshingly unafraid to advertise his literary ambition. Holleran takes his title from Yeats, opens and closes his novel with epistolary exchanges a la Les Liaisons Dangereuses, alludes to Gatsby in the first paragraph of his narrative, and rarely.

First published in , Dancer from the Dance is widely considered the greatest, most exciting novel of the post-Stonewall generation. Told with wit, eroticism and unashamed lyricism, it remains a heart-breaking love letter to a lost city of hope, and a testament to the brilliance of our passions as they burn brightest. Andrew Holleran’s debut novel, Dancer from the Dance, is a cult classic of the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS era, vividly depicting the dance music scene in New York in the first days of disco. The book centers around Malone, a wildly good-looking Midwestern lawyer who realizes his same-sex attraction and hightails it to the big city. Dancer from the dance Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Dancer from the dance by Holleran, Andrew. Publication date Publisher Perennial.