num_pages: 240
description: "Takes the rite-of-passage novel a step further. . . . Andrew Holleran writes with enormous insight and compassion." — NewsdayAndrew Holleran's follow-up novel to Dancer from the Dance, Nights in Aruba is a classic novel of love shared and love concealed told with wry humor and subtle lyricism.This groundbreaking novel of gay life centers around Paul, an uneasy commuter between two parallel worlds. He is the dutiful son of aging, upper-middle-class parents living in Florida, and a homosexual man plunged deliriously into the world of New York City's bars, baths, and one-night stands. With wry humor and subtle lyricism, Holleran reveals the tragedy and comedy of one man's struggle to come to terms with middle age, homosexuality, truth, love, and life itself.
language: English
title: Nights in Aruba
titlecomplete: Nights in Aruba
genres: American, Queer, Classics, Novels, Gay Fiction, LGBT, Gay, Fiction, Queer Lit
ratings_count: 367
places: Caribbean Islands, New York City, New York, New York (State), Florida, Aruba
publisher: Harper Perennial