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Dancer from the Dance: A Novel
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Holleran is a masterful writer with some beautiful writing, but his work here and later often seems relentlessly grim. This book is a bit self-consciously Fitzgeraldesque, with a few mentions of "Dutch sailors" seeming like a riff on the last passages of "The Great Gatbsy." A lot of the prose is interior, not much plot.
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I have a hunch that the novel was meant to make readers experience the grief of the main character. It gave me grief instead.
If you're looking for the Holleran who wrote The Dancer from the Dance you won't find him here. You get the style but nothing of a story so one star is for the style. If you're looking for a hero you can identify with, you... »
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Nights in Aruba: A Novel
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Nights in Aruba has been criticized as lacking structure. Even Holleran has said this. I don't agree. The "Novel" is perfect as it is. With this work, Holleran should have been elevated to his proper place among the most skillful and observant writers of English prose of the last, and now this, century. Sadly, because his audience has been largely l... »
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The Beauty of Men: A Novel
Lake doesn't work and doesn't have friends, a job, or even a first name. All he really has is an abundance of memories of the unsatisfied life of a middle... »
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Ground Zero
This was a great collection from Holleran. I think it's first printing was limited as it was even a little hard to get a first edition when it was publis... »
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