| Dance on My Grave | |
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First edition cover |
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| Author(s) | Aidan Chambers |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Dance Sequence |
| Genre(s) | Young adult novel |
| Publisher | Bodley Head |
| Publication date | 1982 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 978-0-370-30366-6 |
| Preceded by | Breaktime |
| Followed by | Now I Know |
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 is a 1982 young adult novel by British author Aidan Chambers. It is the second book in the Dance Sequence series.
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 Library Patrons of Texas.[9]
Dance on My Grave has been translated into at least 9 other languages in both Asia and Europe.[10]