Adam Jenrette, thirty-one and a successful Manhattan artist, has been hiding from his past for too long. When a relative's death calls him home to North Carolina, he is pulled into an intense encounter with his own eighteen-year-old self and with the two most important people in his life -- Cary Kinlaw, his best boyhood friend, and Jane McCrae, the girl they both, disastrously, loved. And as he relives one incredible, heartbreaking summer from thirteen years before, he dares to recover what he changed his life to lose .
Reminiscent of William Styron and Pat Conroy but with the sexual heat and obsessiveness of Scott Spenser's Endless Love, this is a spellbinding love story from a writer of extraordinary gifts.
"Brilliant... a defining voice for his generation... Reading stretches of "Early From the Dance" is like attending a play in which every line is a curtain line. Payne has the deepest human sympathy for his characters and knowledge of the heart; everyone in this book comes alive... Payne is extraordinarily gifted."
--The Boston Globe
"... choreographed with sinewy definition and split-second timing... David Payne is in top form, and it's some of the strongest, most demanding writing to be found in American fiction today."
--The Lost Angeles Times
Genre: Literary Fiction
Reminiscent of William Styron and Pat Conroy but with the sexual heat and obsessiveness of Scott Spenser's Endless Love, this is a spellbinding love story from a writer of extraordinary gifts.
"Brilliant... a defining voice for his generation... Reading stretches of "Early From the Dance" is like attending a play in which every line is a curtain line. Payne has the deepest human sympathy for his characters and knowledge of the heart; everyone in this book comes alive... Payne is extraordinarily gifted."
--The Boston Globe
"... choreographed with sinewy definition and split-second timing... David Payne is in top form, and it's some of the strongest, most demanding writing to be found in American fiction today."
--The Lost Angeles Times
Genre: Literary Fiction
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