Andrew holleran the kingdom of sand7/5/2023 ![]() There isn’t a heightened plot anywhere in The Kingdom of Sand, rather, a consistent meandering of life and longing. This time, however, instead of his twenties, the protagonist is in his sixties, and rather than navigating a provocative scene of life just beginning, it offers a meditation on life that’s nearing an end. While the plots are vastly different in tone and pace, it’s evident that Holleran offers another necessary piece of literature about a gay man exploring his life. Over 40 years ago, in 1978, Holleran published Dancer from the Dance - a novel widely regarded as a classic work of gay literature about a young man in his twenties exploring New York’s gay scene. And with that, the scene is set for Andrew Holleran’s first novel in 16 years, The Kingdom of Sand. Rather than stay home and watch porn by himself, his usual preference, he’s venturing out to a “video store” to find something, or, rather, someone to bide his time with. Our protagonist, an unnamed narrator, is trying to break up the monotony of the same old routine. ![]() ![]() It’s a dreary day in a small, highly regressive Christian town in Northern Florida. ![]()
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