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Dance on My Grave
novel by Aidan Chambers
Dance on My Grave is a young adult novel by British author Aidan Chambers. 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 is the second book in Chambers's six-novel Dance Sequence series.
It tells the story of a British teenager named Hal Robinson, detailing the events that led to his dancing on the grave of his slightly older friend, Barry Gorman, with whom Hal 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 by the Library Patrons of Texas.[9]
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Aidan Chambers (born 27 December ) is a British author of children's and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal[1] and the American Printz Award[2] for Postcards from No Man's Land (). For his "lasting contribution to children's literature" he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in [3][4]
Born near Chester-le-Street, County Durham in , Chambers was an only child, and a poor scholar; considered "slow" by his teachers, he did not learn to read fluently until the age of nine.[5] After two years in the Royal Navy as part of his National Service, Chambers trained as a teacher and taught for three years at Westcliff High School in Southend on Sea before joining an Anglican monastery in Stroud, Gloucestershire in His young-adult novel Now I Know () is based partly on his experiences as a monk.
His first plays, including Johnny Salter (), The Car and The Chicken Run (), were published while he was a teacher at Archway School in Stroud.
Chambers left the monastery in and a year later became a freelance writer. His works include the "Dance sequence" of six novels ( to ): Breaktime, Dance on My Grave, Now I Know, The Toll Bridge, Postcards from No Man's Land and This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn