Dancer from the Dance

Beautiful, hilarious, heart-breaking and tender

Andrew McMillan

A life changing read for me. Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which I longed - stuck in closed-on-Sunday's London

Rupert Everett

Dance from the Dance accomplished for the 1970’s what The Great Gatsby achieved for the 1920’s — the glamorization of a decade and a culture

Edmund White

An astonishingly beautiful book. The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation

Harper's

The first gay novel everybody read... It’s the story of youth and beauty and money and drugs. But overarchingly, it’s the story of a new queer future

Michael Cunningham, New York Times Magazine

Erotic heat percolates through these pages

The New York Times Book Review

Beautifully written, evocative, and hilarious

The New Republic

Compelling… A vision of society, straight and gay

Village Voice

Despite being of its time, Dancer from the Dance is also timeless: the restless momentum the characters feel, being pulled to the next lover, the next party, the next anecdote… what Holleran has given us is our very own queer (queerer?) Great Gatsby: its decadence, its fear, its violence, its ecstasy

Andrew McMillan, Observer

Dancer From the Dance… [is] the most perfect piece of literature… the two central characters still just really resonate. They blossom with every shade of the gay sensibility, from the very best to the absolutely most despicable… it’s just a perfect book… an absolute masterpiece

Paul Flynn, Gay Times

Elegiac, and profoundly romantic; a kind of gay Great Gatsby

Tracey Thorn, New Statesman

The novel has lost none of its incandescence. With his lavish – if pointed – eye, Holleran acts as both a faithful scribe and scold, documenting the pleasures and pitfalls of a newly freed community… a lyrical tribute to a vanished paradise

Daniel Culpan, Times Literary Supplement