The Dancer from the Dance: A Novel (Plume Contemporary Fiction)

by Andrew Holleran | Entertainment |
ISBN: 0452261295 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingKateKintailwing of Burke, Virginia USA on 7/16/2017
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Journal Entry 1 by wingKateKintailwing from Burke, Virginia USA on Sunday, July 16, 2017
Picked this up at the Book Thing of Baltimore, MD. Turns out I already have a copy of this book and don't need two. So out this copy goes into the world to find a reader who doesn't already have it! 

Journal Entry 2 by wingKateKintailwing at -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Sunday, July 16, 2017

Released 6 yrs ago (7/16/2017 UTC) at -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA

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Adding to emmejo's LGBTQ+ Bookbox. Hope it finds a new reader who will enjoy it!

Journal Entry 3 by wingGoryDetailswing at Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Sunday, July 23, 2017
I've read this before, so I'm leaving it in the box for someone else, but did want to add my comments.

I rather like the tale-within-a-tale format, with the story proper wrapped in letters between two friends. And the pre-AIDS-era party-lifestyle scenes were familiar to me from other novels, though the tone of this one is more bittersweet and muted. [One bit from the letters: "Your novel might serve a historical purpose - if only because the young queens nowadays are utterly indistinguishable from straight boys."] The mystery of Malone, beautiful and charismatic and (in the words of the narrator) doomed - is never resolved, which leaves it open for us to guess, a nice touch...

Other nice touches: Sutherland attending to an injured Malone in the uniform of a nurse in the Crimean War, "bearing a poppy and a volume of The Jungle Book." The Fire Island scenes, which reminded me of the time I visited Cherry Grove with friends and got to see the setting for myself. Another line from Sutherland (who got most of the best ones), while apologizing for his Vuitton luggage: "I know it's pretentious... but it wasn't when my grandmother bought it, in 1926."

Journal Entry 4 by emmejo at Trumansburg, New York USA on Tuesday, December 5, 2017
This book rode to the end of the bookbox.

Journal Entry 5 by emmejo at Cortland, New York USA on Monday, January 28, 2019
I went back and forth on this book, and have being snow-bound to thank for keeping me reading until I felt committed to finish it. I didn't really care for the author's writing style at most times, and the objectification that many characters treated others with bothered me. But, there were some things that kept me engaged; mostly some creative characters, snappy one-liners, and the unique general tone of the piece, which I think I would describe as wistfully regretful. Ultimately, I was glad I finished it, although I don't think I'd re-read it in the future.

Journal Entry 6 by emmejo at Little Free Library #2086 in Ithaca, New York USA on Monday, February 11, 2019

Released 5 yrs ago (2/10/2019 UTC) at Little Free Library #2086 in Ithaca, New York USA

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