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Dancer from the Dance

By: Andrew Holleran
Narrated by: David Pittu
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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 1970's gay scene. Joining 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 New York's hedonistic past, and a testament to the brilliance of our passions as they burn brightest.

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

©2025 Andrew Holleran (P)2025 Penguin Audio Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction New York

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wonderful sense of place for these characters to shine in. A fantastic narration that convinced me to fall in love with them all, with the city and that dangerous island.

fantastic narration.

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A lyrical, haunting portrait of queer life in 1970s New York. I went back and forth between absolutely loving this and simply admiring it while my mind wandered.

A haunting portrait of queer life in 1970s New York

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