![]() A wistful, witty meditation on a gay man's twilight years and the twilight of America. ![]() Holleran renders an elegiac and very funny contemplation of not just ageing but an age. ![]() Holleran's writing is as calmly compelling as the repetitive tasks that occupy a monastic day. grim wit and flashes of sanctity from above. The book's image of isolation and old age is all the more haunting because in 1978 Holleran wrote the quintessential novel about the sheer, careless pleasure of gay abandon, Dancer From the Dance. Holleran's fifth novel - both melancholy and hilarious - finds the protagonist living out his days in his late mother's Florida home, navigating loneliness, a changing world and a life post-cruising. A beautiful way to describe how we fade away. ![]() Now, at almost 80 years of age, he has produced a novel remarkable for its integrity, for its readiness to embrace difficult truths and for its complex way of paying homage to the passing of time - Colm Tóibín * New York Times *īracingly honest and wise. The nameless narrator is a gay man who moved to Florida to look after his aging parents-during the height of the AIDS epidemic-and has found himself unable to leave after their deaths. in 1978 Holleran wrote the quintessential novel about gay abandon, the sheer, careless pleasure of it: Dancer From the Dance. The Kingdom of Sand is a poignant tale of desire and dread-Andrew Holleran's first new book in sixteen years. New novel is all the more affecting and engaging because the images of isolation and old age here are haunted. ![]()
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