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Set in the 1970s, this book tells the tragic story of Malone, the most beautiful man in gay New York. The author has also written "Eight Nights in Arabia" and "Ground Zero".
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HE was just a face I saw in a discotheque one winter, but it was I who ended up going back to Fire Island to pick up his things. Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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For some reason I didn't read this book when it was new, and then I consciously put off reading it. Surely no book could live up to the reputation it'd acquired? But "Dancer from the Dance" is everything it's been said to be, unashamedly romantic, poetic, lyrical, elegiac, a hymn to beauty saturated with religious imagery, Christian and Pagan. In it, we meet the beautiful, elusive Anthony Malone, young man of good family, ex-lawyer, now a "professional faggot" living for love, music and the dance in 1970s New York, aka Suck City. We also meet his mentor, Andrew Sutherland, gay leper (he has a small penis) and the queen to end all queens; an updated Lord Henry Wootton to Malone's Dorian Grey. We follow them and their companions on the circuit as they pursue a strangely monastic life, a life stripped down to one thing - love - servants of Priapus seeking the Beatific Vision. And if all this sounds over the top, it is. If you have a romantic heart, the book draws you into its overheated, hedonistic world.
In my view the recent critics of "Dancer from the Dance" have got it wrong. Accept the book on its own terms and immerse yourself in its celebratory vision of love, beauty and sex.
In my view the recent critics of "Dancer from the Dance" have got it wrong. Accept the book on its own terms and immerse yourself in its celebratory vision of love, beauty and sex.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is an amazing book. It has two of modern fiction's most memorable characters: Malone, enigmatic, charming and seaqrching for an elusive happiness; and Sutherland, the queen to end all queens. And it is set in a background of New York in the sixties and seventies which most of us can only imagine. Indeed, the book is as much about New York as its human characters and its portrayal of gay life is comic, tragic, gross and elegaic by turns. This is a book which has inspired others but is like no other. It portrays a lifestyle that is compelling and disturbing at the same time and which is both compulsive and repellent for those who are living it. I ended up wishing I had been there and being thankful I was not for it was a destructive life that was also irresistible.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is an amazing book. I picked up a copy in a second hand bookstore in New York. I would wholly recommend that you read this book too.
Set on the gay circuit in New York c. 1975, I never imagined that the central themes teased out through the two main characters, Sutherland and Malone, could have remained so relevant today.
Timeless, breathtaking, witty, devastating, and above all beautiful...
Set on the gay circuit in New York c. 1975, I never imagined that the central themes teased out through the two main characters, Sutherland and Malone, could have remained so relevant today.
Timeless, breathtaking, witty, devastating, and above all beautiful...
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the best gay novel
This novel has long been my favourite on the gay experience, recalling a time when gay life was at its zenith: very sexual, underground, very linked to a certain kind of music and... Read more
Published 5 days ago by schumann_bg
Dreary and pretentious
I'm afraid I can't agree with the other reviewers. I found this book to be shallow, over-written and with characters you learned very little about or cared about. Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2010 by Nick Kirby
Dancer from the dance
A brilliantb read yet at the same time depressing. An account of the excitement of life for a small group of hedonistic gay men in pre AIDS New York. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2006 by Gareth Wyn
Elegiac seminal gay novel
Much more than a story of gay love, Dancer from the Dance is a seminal book in gay literature than transcends boundaries and speaks straight to the heart of love, desire, ambition... Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2002 by Slinky
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