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Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE AND PAPERBACK ROW
[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 eighty 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, The New York Times Book Review
It's rare to find fiction that takes this kind of dying of the light as its subject and doesn't make its heroes feel either pathetic or polished with a gleam of false dignity . . . This sad, beautiful book captures the sensations Holleran's characters are chasingas well as the darkness that inevitably comes for them, and us. Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times
