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Imprint: Jonathan Cape
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Published: 09/06/2022
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ISBN: 9781787334045
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 27mm x 144mm
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Weight: 392g
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RRP: £14.99
The Kingdom of Sand
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the exhilarating new novel from the author of Dancer from the Dance
'Affecting and engaging' COLM TÓIBÍN
One of BuzzFeed's Hot LGBTQ+ Books From The First Half Of 2022
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.
An elegy to sex and the body, but also a tragically honest exploration of loneliness and the endless need for human connection, The Kingdom of Sand marks the much-anticipated return of Andrew Holleran.
A The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2022
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Imprint: Jonathan Cape
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Published: 09/06/2022
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ISBN: 9781787334045
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 27mm x 144mm
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Weight: 392g
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RRP: £14.99
Reviews
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[Holleran's] new novel is all the more affecting and engaging because the images of isolation and old age here are haunted . . . in 1978 Holleran wrote the quintessential novel about gay abandon, the sheer, careless pleasure of it: Dancer From the Dance. Now, at almost 80 years of age, he has produced a novel remarkable for its integrity, for its readiness to embrace difficult truths and for its complex way of paying homage to the passing of time
Colm Tóibín, New York Times
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An unexpectedly timely novel - wise, shrewd, and in its way, kind, if honesty is ever kind. And written with the sure hand of a master
Alexander Chee
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Every one of [Andrew Holleran's] books is a gem. If he were straight, his reputation would be immense. The beauty of his language, the empathy for his characters and the world he writes about, are unsurpassed by any other gay writing of our time... He is our Fitzgerald and Hemingway but for one thing: he writes better than both of them
Larry Kramer, author of The Normal Heart
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Andrew Holleran writes about desire so beautifully it's occasionally forgotten that he's one of the best living novelists on friendship. This tender, often very funny novel is a book about that final field of play between friends, when all the masks are removed. I wish it never ended
John Freeman
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Accomplished . . . Holleran is, as always, sharply observant when it comes to human relationships . . . The writing throughout exhibits the same clinical brilliance that Holleran made his own in his rightly acclaimed first novel, Dancer from the Dance, fifty years ago. His prose remains unnervingly precise in every detail. It is also wryly comic
Paul Bailey, Literary Review
