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A review by cult_consumer
Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
4.0
“Go out dancing tonight, my dear, and go home with someone. And if the love doesn’t last beyond the morning, then know I love you.”
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Dancer from the Dance pins its focus predominantly on two characters : Sutherland, an eclectic hedonist, and boy-wonder Malone who is on a quest for love in New York City’s gay circuit. Examining the nature of “love” in this environment and for the community of men who participate in it, Holleran explores beauty, age, and intention in this “novel-within-a-novel.”
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Mesmeric prose vivid enough to outshine the story itself; Holleran’s characters act as compelling caricatures of stereotypical gay archetypes. I adored the epistolary sections which had me floored from the jump. While I appreciated being transported to and experiencing this particular era, I’m unsure that the story being told about Malone and Sutherland is clear and consistent throughout the novel. To be honest, I could have been sidetracked by the language itself.
Serving Great Expectations with Sutherland an anti-Havisham and Malone a Pip entering into “society” as it was. Something deeply depressing brewing between the lines which I am sure will only continue to bubble as the book sits.
3.5-4. Enjoyed her, would recommend, probably won’t read again. Score may inflate with time!
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Dancer from the Dance pins its focus predominantly on two characters : Sutherland, an eclectic hedonist, and boy-wonder Malone who is on a quest for love in New York City’s gay circuit. Examining the nature of “love” in this environment and for the community of men who participate in it, Holleran explores beauty, age, and intention in this “novel-within-a-novel.”
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Mesmeric prose vivid enough to outshine the story itself; Holleran’s characters act as compelling caricatures of stereotypical gay archetypes. I adored the epistolary sections which had me floored from the jump. While I appreciated being transported to and experiencing this particular era, I’m unsure that the story being told about Malone and Sutherland is clear and consistent throughout the novel. To be honest, I could have been sidetracked by the language itself.
Serving Great Expectations with Sutherland an anti-Havisham and Malone a Pip entering into “society” as it was. Something deeply depressing brewing between the lines which I am sure will only continue to bubble as the book sits.
3.5-4. Enjoyed her, would recommend, probably won’t read again. Score may inflate with time!