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Country United Kingdom Series Dance Sequence Media type Print (Paperback) Originally published 1982 Publisher The Bodley Head | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 1982 Pages 256 Genre Young adult fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Followed by Postcards from No Man's Land Similar Aidan Chambers books, Young adult fiction books |
Seconds flat dance on my grave
Dance on My Grave: a life and a death in four parts, one hundred and seventeen bits, six running reports and two press clippings, with a few jokes, a puzzle or three, some footnotes and a fiasco now and then to help the story along is a 1982 young adult novel by British author Aidan Chambers. It is the second book in the Dance Sequence series.
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It tells the story of a British teenager named Henry Robinson, detailing the events that led to his dancing on the grave of his slightly older friend, Barry Gorman, with whom Robinson had a love affair.
It was one of the first few young adult books published by a major publisher that depicts homosexuality without being judgmental and was included on ALA's and other libraries' list of books for gay teens. It has also been referred to in a number of books on children and young adult literature.
Because of its gay-positive theme, it was challenged at the Montgomery County Memorial Library System in 2004 by the Library Patrons of Texas.
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Translations
Dance on My Grave has been translated into at least 9 other languages in both Asia and Europe.