The Kingdom of Sand
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  • Published: 8 July 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529116380
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $29.99

The Kingdom of Sand

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9 Jun 2022
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6 Mar 2025
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8 Jul 2023
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Andrew Holleran's unique literary voice is on full display in this poignant story of lust, dread, and desire - the first novel in sixteen years from one of the most acclaimed gay authors of our time.

'Affecting and engaging' COLM TÓIBÍN

'A wistful, witty meditation on a gay man's twilight years and the twilight of America' Guardian

Out in the drought-struck backwaters of rural Florida, The Kingdom of Sand's nameless narrator lives a life of semi-solitude, enjoying the odd, fleeting sexual encounter and the friendship of a few.

His world is ageing, and the memories of another time flash, then fade - visions of parties filled with handsome young men, the parents whom he chose to spend his life besides, the generation he once knew, struck down by AIDS. But, when forced to watch the slow demise of a close neighbour, he is drawn back to the here and now, and his own borrowed time in this kingdom of sand.

'Bracingly honest and wise' The Times, Books of the Year

'Both melancholy and hilarious' New York Times
  • Published: 8 July 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529116380
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Andrew Holleran

Andrew Holleran's first novel, Dancer from the Dance, was published in 1978 to great critical acclaim and is now regarded as a classic. He is also the author of Nights in Aruba; Ground Zero (reissued as Chronicles of a Plague); The Beauty of Men; In September, the Light Changes; and Grief

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