![]() ![]() It was as if I were driving through a cloud. I’d been driving through the sort of fine mist that had me turning the windshield wipers on and off, on and off, since what was on the windshield didn’t seem like enough moisture to qualify as rain and yet after a few minutes without the wipers I couldn’t see. ![]() ![]() It was the second week of the month, the middle of a cold, gray Thursday afternoon, when I stopped by after not having gone there for a long time. But in my case there wasn’t, which was why in December of last year I went back to the video store on Highway 301. The first touch of winter in North Florida, especially when the cold front triggers a long day of rain, always makes you feel that life is turning inward, that when you get home, there will be someone there. He is also the author of the novels Nights in Aruba and The Beauty of Men a book of essays, Ground Zero (reissued as Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited) a collection of short stories, In September, the Light Changes and a novella, Grief. Holleran's first novel, Dancer from the Dance, was published in 1978. The following is excerpted from Andrew Holleran's new novel, The Kingdom of Sand. ![]()
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