Description

This program is read by awardwinning actor and twotime Tony Awardnominee David Pittu

The Kingdom of Sand features a nameless narrator who has survived the death of his friends to AIDS and the loss of his parents to old age and tragedy Now he must witness the slow demise of a friend just a shade older than he is Semianonymous sexual encounters gallows humor and classic films are his tools for staving off the dying of the light In prose thats in turn mordantly funny and hauntingly elegiac Andrew Holleran takes the listener from a video porn shop off Route 301 to the memory of parties in Washington DC filled with handsome young men to the lonely facades of rural Florida

Hollerans groundbreaking first novel Dancer from the Dance is widely regarded as a classic work of gay literature His following works have established him as one of the great writers of our time The Kingdom of Sand is an audiobook that will burnish his considerable reputation a reverie to sex but also a stunningly honest exploration of loneliness and the endless need for human connection especially as we count down our days

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar Straus and Giroux