![]() ![]() This sad, beautiful book captures the sensations Holleran's characters are chasing - as well as the darkness that inevitably comes for them, and us." -Mark Athitakis, The Los Angeles Times ![]() "It's rare to find fiction that takes this kind of dying of the light as its subject and doesn't make its heroes feel either pathetic or polished with a gleam of false dignity. 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 Toibin, The New York Times Book Review in 1978 Holleran wrote the quintessential novel about gay abandon, the sheer, careless pleasure of it: Dancer From the Dance. " new novel is all the more affecting and engaging because the images of isolation and old age here are haunted. ![]() ONE OF THE LONDON TIMES' TOP TWENTY-SIX FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE PICK ![]()
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