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

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"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" is a young adult novel by Aidan Chambers that explores a passionate and tragic gay teenage relationship through an experimental, fragmented narrative structure.

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instanceOf novel
author Aidan Chambers NERFINISHED
centralCharacter Barry Gorman NERFINISHED
contains documents within the narrative
non-linear chronology
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
explores intensity of first love
mourning and survivor guilt
social attitudes toward homosexuality
genre LGBT literature
coming-of-age novel
young adult fiction
hasLGBTContent yes
hasTitleShortForm Dance on My Grave NERFINISHED
intendedMarket English-language book market
language English
literaryMovement contemporary young adult literature
literarySignificance early depiction of gay teens in YA literature
mainTheme gay teenage relationship
identity and sexuality
love and grief
narrativeForm experimental narrative
narrativePerspective first-person narrative
narrativeStructure fragmented structure
narrator Hal Robinson NERFINISHED
notableFor frank treatment of adolescent sexuality
innovative narrative form in YA fiction
positionInSeries first book in the Dance sequence
protagonist Hal Robinson NERFINISHED
publicationDecade 1980s
series Dance sequence
setting English seaside town
structureElement press clippings
running reports
short narrative bits
subjectMatter death of a lover
family relationships
teenage rebellion
targetAudience young adults
timePeriodOfSetting late 20th century
tone mix of humor and tragedy

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Aidan Chambers notableWork 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