Dance on My Grave

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Dance on My Grave
Dance on My Grave.jpg
First edition cover
AuthorAidan Chambers
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Series
GenreYoung adult novel
PublisherBodley Head
Publication date
1982
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages256
ISBN978-0-370-30366-6
Preceded byBreaktime 
Followed byNow I Know 

Dance on My Grave is a 1982 young adult novel by British author Aidan Chambers. It is the second book in Chamber's six-novel Dance Sequence series. Its full title is 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.

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.[1]

It was one of the first few young adult books published by a major publisher that depicts homosexuality[2][3] without being judgmental and was included on ALA's[4] and other libraries'[5] list of books for gay teens. It has also been referred to in a number of books on children and young adult literature.[6][7][8]

Because of its gay-positive theme, it was challenged at the Montgomery County Memorial Library System in 2004 by the .[9]

Translations[]

Dance on My Grave has been translated into at least 9 other languages in both Asia and Europe.[10]

Film adaptation[]

The book was the basis of a film entitled Summer of 85 (Été 85) by French director François Ozon in 2020.[11]

References[]

  1. ^ "Dance on My Grave".
  2. ^ Eccleshare, Julia (18 May 2007). "Obituaries: Margaret Clark". The Guardian.
  3. ^ "Contemporary Writers: Aidan Chambers". Archived from the original on 12 October 2009.
  4. ^ "Bibliography for Gay Teens". 29 December 2009.
  5. ^ "LGBT Books for Young Adults".
  6. ^ Trites, Roberta Seelinger (2000). Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature. University of Iowa Press. pp. 104–107. ISBN 978-0-87745-732-9.
  7. ^ Hunt, Peter; Ray, Sheila G. Bannister (1996). International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Routledge. p. 386. ISBN 978-0-203-16812-7.
  8. ^ Trupe, Alice (2006). Thematic Guide to Young Adult Literature. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-0-313-33234-0.
  9. ^ "Banned Book List".
  10. ^ "Books in Other Language translations and US editions".
  11. ^ Peter Debruge, "François Ozon’s ‘Summer of 85’: Film Review". Variety, 14 July 2020.

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