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Condition: Very Good Dustjacket complete but with slight scuffmarks and stains; edges discolouring with age. Inside front jacket has short ink inscription and slight printer's damage (irregularly cut and pasted board). Inside back jacket has short pencil markings. Book edges show age but book itself is tight and apparently unread. Plot / Content: "This haunting, brilliant novel is about a young man's obsessional search for love in the gay world. Malone is beautiful, kind and good, adored and desired by all who know him. His is thesubject of gossip and dreams by the displaced homosexuals who inhabit this frenzied world. But Malone remains elusive and untouchable, a Galahad searching for his Holy Grail. In his quest he travels from encounters of romantic tenderness to the most hellish scenes of sexual hungers. "Malone witnesses and partakes of the demonic cravings of others. They lead him into the midnight parks of Greenwich Village - to the smoke-filled, drug-frenzied discotheques - to the purgatorial public baths, all containing lost souls looking for what they believe is redemption. In his Danteseque journey Malone is accompanied by a mentor, a tragic clown named Sutherland. Sutherland is a hilarious character who personifies the drag queen's self-inflicting wit. Dressed in Halston, encased in long black gloves past the elbows, he will drawl to a lovelorn boy, 'My dear, if you're going to be serious I'd better change my clothes!' Sutherland is Malone's dark angel, his guide through the netherworld. "Malone passes through orgiastic fires and after a bacchanalian party on Fire Island, comes to a mysterious end. Gossip about Malone now transcends into myth. The beautiful young man remains as elusive as the romantic love he personifies for all his lovers and fellow wanderers. "Dancer from the Dance is an astonishing first novel, complex and richly layered, full of humor, hilarity, pathos and characters that burn in the memory. Like the Alexandria Quartet, it is the story also of a place, a city that comes to frenzied life while others sleep, and folds back on itself". (from the jacket) Background / Biography: Andrew Holleran is the pseudonym of Eric Garber (born 1944), a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is a prominent novelist of post-Stonewall gay literature. He was a member of the The Violet Quill, a gay writer's group that met briefly from 1980-81. Continued on Wikipedia Reviews: "Mr Holleran writes with a joy and understanding of the language that I have seldom seen in novels by anyone, anywhere." Merle Miller, author of Plain Speaking (from the jacket) Years ago, when it first appeared, I read and was seduced by Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance. It was not Malone, the Dancer, who attracted me, but Sutherland, the queen (an often misleading and inadequate word) with the heart and wit of gold. Equally alluring was the world which Sutherland presided over and the anonymous narrator glided through - New York City and Fire Island, hot summer days and long nights of music, drugs, parties and desire. The images were as tantalising - and irrelevant - as those of a vivid dream. Martin Foreman, January 1983 Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "Isn't it strange that when we fall in love, this great dream we have, this extraordinary disease, the only thing in which either of is interested, it's inevitably with some perfectly ordinary person who for some reason we cannot define is the magic bearer, the magician, the one who brings all this to us. Why? " from the dustjacket Secondhand booksellers |
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