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Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran
2.75

my edition had the quote, “an astonishingly beautiful book. the best gay novel written by anyone of our generation” on the cover from harper’s magazine. i think a better description would be the best white cis-man gay novel. it only referenced an extremely small part of the gay community, which was the point to be fair. but in terms of way the novel treats race and gender—it’s definitely a product of its time (a bit racist and misogynistic). beautiful prose and seems to be self aware in respect to the superficiality of the story and writing though!