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Andrew Holleran

Andrew Holleran is the author of the novels Dancer from the Dance, Nights in Aruba and The Beauty of Men; a book of essays, Ground Zero; a collection of short stories, In September, the Light Changes; and a novella, Grief. ‘The Kingdom of Sand’ is an extract from his novel of the same title, forthcoming with Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US and Jonathan Cape in the UK.

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Fiction | Issue 159 padlock
Fiction | Issue 159 padlock

The Kingdom of Sand

Andrew Holleran

‘In a small town, one thinks that Time is not even passing.’

An excerpt from Holleran’s novel The Kingdom of Sand.

Fiction | Issue 124
Fiction | Issue 124

There’s a Small Hotel

Andrew Holleran

‘Returning to Manhattan was like seeing someone who’d once been your lover but was now with someone else.’

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