Andrew Holleran Books in Order

Anthony Malone leaves a closeted life for New York’s gay scene, where the flamboyant Sutherland becomes his guide. Amid discos and Fire Island parties, his search for love strains against the pleasures that surround him.

Paul divides his life between New York’s gay nightlife and visits to his aging parents in Florida. As middle age approaches, he confronts the distance between sexual freedom, family duty, and the fulfillment he expected.

Written during the early AIDS crisis, these essays record the devastation unfolding within gay New York. Holleran examines a community confronting illness and loss, preserving the experience of a world changing around its survivors.

Lark leaves New York to care for his dying mother in Florida. At forty-seven, he confronts aging, desire, and the loss of friends to AIDS while struggling with the loneliness of having survived.

Sixteen stories follow gay men navigating desire, friendship and the passage of time. Visits to Amsterdam, encounters on trains and the end of the Fire Island season reveal lives shaped by memory, loneliness and persistent longing.

After his mother’s death, a grieving professor takes temporary refuge in Washington. His landlord, the city, and Mary Todd Lincoln’s writings draw him into an examination of mourning, loneliness, and the persistence of longing.

An aging man in rural Florida watches a friend’s decline after already losing his parents and many friends. Memories, fleeting encounters, and shared films become ways of confronting solitude and the approach of death.