Andrew Holleran
Autor(a) de Dancer from the Dance
About the Author
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(eng) Please do not combine this author page with that of the writer on gay history and science fiction. Although they share a legal name, none of the books on Garber's author page were written by Holleran. Thank you.
Image credit: Arkansas Literary Festival 2007, photo by David W. Quinn
Obras por Andrew Holleran
Ties {short story} 1 exemplar
A House Divided {short story} 1 exemplar
Sunday Morning: Key West {short story} 1 exemplar
EL DANZARIN Y LA DANZA. 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Wrestling with the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men (1995) — Contribuidor — 243 exemplares
The Violet Quill Reader: The Emergence of Gay Writing After Stonewall (1994) — Contribuidor — 228 exemplares
Friends and Lovers: Gay Men Write About the Families They Create (1995) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
In Search of Stonewall: The Riots at 50, The Gay and Lesbian Review at 25, Best Essays 1994-2018 (2019) — Contribuidor — 74 exemplares
Obsessed: A Flesh and the Word Collection of Gay Erotic Memoirs (1999) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Holleran, Andrew
- Nome legal
- Garber, Eric
- Data de nascimento
- 1944
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Educação
- Harvard University
- Ocupações
- Lecturer in Creative Writing, American University, Washington DC, USA
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Publishing Triangle (Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2007)
- Nota de desambiguação
- Please do not combine this author page with that of the writer on gay history and science fiction. Although they share a legal name, none of the books on Garber's author page were written by Holleran. Thank you.
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Andrew Holleran brought his goodwill as an iconic gay writer to the first half of The Kingdom of Sand. But without a plot, I lost interested as I dragged myself to the end.
Don't give up on this novel halfway through, as I almost did. Even though in the middle stretches the characters become tiresome and the prose tries too hard to charm the reader, it all picks up again in the final quarter. The queens age and the death mentioned at the beginning approaches and the story derives some direction from both of these elements. There are a couple of quotable passages, too, so all in all reading this somewhat flawed book is an experience I'm glad I've had.
Another gay lit. classic that shouldn't be passed up.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 14
- Also by
- 34
- Membros
- 2,588
- Popularidade
- #9,927
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 28
- ISBN
- 63
- Línguas
- 6
- Marcado como favorito
- 10
- Matthew 7:24-27
It’s universally recognized that building on sand, literal or metaphorical, is not a good idea, and here Holleran seems to suggest that he or his protagonist, depending on how much of this book is memoir, has regrettably discovered that he has done just that (while living in sandy Florida, widely recognized itself as “not a good idea”).
The protagonist of this linked collection of stories is someone who seems to have built his personal foundation on things that tend to fall away with the passage of time: youth, sex appeal, one’s parents. Bereft of them he feels lonely and isolated, carrying on living in his parents’ house in Florida surrounded by their belongings (usually a bad idea, isn’t it?). He’s afraid of approaching death, and of dying alone. He’d like to find relief from his anxieties in sex with attractive younger people, but that doesn’t often work out anymore.
Those are the themes; in structure the book is not entirely convincingly linked stories, reflections and ruminations largely, that read an awful lot like memoir. Some passages are repeated among them which creates a feeling that this wasn’t too well edited when it was assembled together. The prose is a sort of well written stream of consciousness light on plot. Sometimes funny, intentionally or not - “I can see the glow of blue and green lights, the two most satisfying Christmas colors, no doubt because they are so melancholy” he writes, which I’m not sure is supposed to be funny but struck me as, and is a fine example of the book’s tone.… (mais)