The Kingdom of Sand is an audiobook that will burnish his considerable reputation: a reverie to sex but also a stunningly honest exploration of loneliness and the endless need for human connection, especially as we count down our days.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Ĭlassic Holleran.if you're into his writing His following works have established him as one of the great writers of our time. Holleran’s groundbreaking first novel, Dancer from the Dance, is widely regarded as a classic work of gay literature. In prose that’s in turn mordantly funny and hauntingly elegiac, Andrew Holleran takes the listener from a video porn shop off Route 301 to the memory of parties in Washington, DC, filled with handsome young men, to the lonely facades of rural Florida. Semi-anonymous sexual encounters, gallows humor, and classic films are his tools for staving off the dying of the light. Now he must witness the slow demise of a friend just a shade older than he is. The Kingdom of Sand features a nameless narrator who has survived the death of his friends to AIDS and the loss of his parents to old age and tragedy. This program is read by award-winning actor and two-time Tony Award-nominee David Pittu.Īndrew Holleran’s unique literary voice is on full display in this poignant story of lust, dread, and desire-the first novel in thirteen years from one of the most acclaimed gay authors of our time.
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