Holleran's moving novel is mostly about human resilience and hope; our enduring need to love, despite our losses. - Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post
Hyperion
June 2006
On Sale: June 6, 2006
150 pages ISBN: 1401302505 EAN: 9781401302504 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Reeling from the recent death of his invalid mother, a worn, jaded professor comes to our nation's capital to recuperate from his loss. What he finds there in his repressed, lonely landlord, in the city's mood and architecture, and in the letters and journals of Mary Todd Lincoln shows him new, poignant truths about America, yearning, loneliness, and mourning itself. Since Andrew Holleran first burst onto the scene with 1978's groundbreaking DANCER FROM THE DANCE, which has been continuously in print, he has been dazzling readers and critics with his haunting, brilliant prose.
The Publishing Triangle ranks DANCER FROM THE DANCE at #15 on its list of the 100 best lesbian and gay novels ever, along with titles by Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf. A new Andrew Holleran book is a major literary event; with GRIEF, Holleran is poised to reach a wider audience than ever before.
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