Dancer from the Dance

A Novel

By: Andrew Holleran

Narrated by: David Pittu

Now in audio for the first time! Award-winning actor and two-time Tony Award nominee David Pittu narrates one of the most influential books in gay literature.

Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance defined gay life in late 1970s New York. Published in 1978, the novel captures the time post-Stonewall and pre-AIDS where sexual freedom was celebrated and the future appeared limitless.

"An astonishingly beautiful book. 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." —Rupert Everett

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 gay scene. An unbridled world of dance parties, saunas, deserted parks and orgies—at its center Malone befriends the flamboyant, 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.

"The story of youth and beauty and money and drugs. But overarchingly…the story of a new queer future" —Michael Cunningham

A Macmillan Audio production.

©1978 Andrew Holleran (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

The Great Gaytsby

I love this haunting, beautiful novel. It is the finest gay novel of our generation I have read. It is fresh, timeless, epic. It reminded me of a mashup between F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.It involved the big themes or life, love, and beauty and it is told in rich, vivid language. It is filled with memorable characters and anecdotes woven from life. I could not ask for a finer book. I will definitely listen to it again. I wish I had read it when it first came out in '78. Definitely a must read book.

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An absolutely beautiful love story with a history lesson every gay would be enriched by listening to. the narrator is the best I've ever heard, he adds exquisite flair to all the characters.

Excellent narration, sad story of 70s gay life

This novel of gay life in New York between (roughly) the Stonewall riot of 1969 and the Everard Baths fire of 1977 is historically important as being one of the first to document the freewheeling hedonism of the era leading up to the AIDS epidemic. Nearly 50 years later, all that saturnalia is quite familiar, as is its tragic aftermath. That said, the "Sutherland" character is a fine literary creation and is beautifully voiced by David Pittu; for me, that's what made this feel worthwhile.

Exquisite

The reader was wonderful. Having read this book in the 70's, I loved how the characters came alive in the reading. I lived in NYC during those days and Andrew captured that moment in time so perfectly. So very rich writing!!

Historical

I liked the read/listen. It took me to a time of B4. And a present life being gay