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Some Dance to Remember: A Novel of Gay Liberation in San Francisco 1970-1982
Some Dance to Remember A Novel of Gay Liberation in San Francisco 19701982 Author:Jack Fritscher SOME DANCE TO REMEMBER. The best-selling 90's novel about the golden 70's is "the Gay Gone with the Wind!" --OUT WEEK Magazine, LAMBDA BOOK REPORT, THE BAY AREA REPORTER, THE ADVOCATE. SOME DANCE tells the truth about the spectacular grace of the Golden Age of Sexual Liberation in the 1970s. This story of eight men and three women is a real char... more »acter-driven story whose dimensional characters are involved in a specific place at at specific time. It is just the sort of novel that reflects its decade the way that TOM WOLFE suggested in THE BILLION-FOOTED BEAST. THE NEW REPUBLIC called this epic novel a classic equal to Gore Vidal's THE CITY AND THE PILLAR and James Baldwin's GIOVANNI'S ROOM. If you liked Armisted Maupin's fairy-dusted TALES OF THE CITY, you'll love the real tales of the City in SOME DANCE. The plot will keep you turning pages. The dialog will make you laugh. The love story will make you cry. The sex, well! SOME DANCE is real American literature. A great, fast read! "Mythic!" --THE ADVOCATE--This big book belongs in libraries as much as in every airport and bookstore from San Francisco to Heathrow! If you were there in the pre-Aids Golden 70's and remember the truth of how wonderful it was, you'll thrill to this fast-talking novel which, according to the LAMMY-ENDOWED LAMBDA BOOK REPORT, has no peer as a document of our times and lives. If you are young enough to have missed the 70's party, you must read this best seller! Don't judge the 70s without this book at your bedside! 3rd printing! (NOTE: The author receives a steady flow of mail from readers who say SOME DANCE truly mirrors their lives; this book that is about sexually active characters who in the end cannot deny their human hearts.)« less