Author(s): Andrew Holleran

Staff Reviews

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALAN HOLLINGHURST

'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

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 gay scene. 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.

First published in 1978, 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.

'The story of youth and beauty and money and drugs. But overarchingly...the story of a new queer future' Michael Cunningham

STAFF REVIEW

A tender and vivid portrait of gay New York in the 1970's - you can practically smell the poppers!

Features on of literature's most endearing queens, the catty and verbose Sutherland, who introduces our main character Malone to NYC's wonderous gay nightlife.

Holleran's lush, emotive prose captures something timeless about the gay experience: so much longing and lusting and short-lived but life-changing love in this book! Gorgeous and melancholy in equal measure.

-Luke from Brunswick Street Bookstore