The Kingdom of Sand
Book description
The Kingdom of Sand is a poignant tale of desire and dread-Andrew Holleran's first new book in sixteen years. The nameless narrator is a gay man who moved to Florida to look after his aging parents-during the height of the AIDS epidemic-and has found himself unable to leave after their…
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1 author picked The Kingdom of Sand as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Andrew Holleran is my favorite gay writer, and one of my favorite writers overall, because his powers of description are so sumptuous and vivid that he can make even the most banal things, like what summertime dusk looks and feels like on a boring suburban street, transformatively beautiful, almost hallucinatory.
He has also taken autofiction to the highest levels of artistry, from his most famous book, Dancer from the Dance, about hedonistic and empty gay life in early 1970s NYC, to all the subsequent books, which chart the life cycle for a gay man without a partner or children.
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