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“The Kingdom of Sand ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read.At the heart of the novel is the story of his friendship with Earl, whom he met cruising at the local boat ramp. For the last twenty years, he has been visiting Earl to watch classic films together and critique the neighbors. Earl is the only person in town with whom he can truly be himself. Now Earl’s health is failing, and our increasingly misanthropic narrator must contend with the fact that once Earl dies, he will be completely alone. He distracts himself with sexual encounters at the video porn store and visits to Walgreens. All the while, he shares reflections on illness and death that are at once funny and heartbreaking.

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Our unnamed hero moved to a small town in the middle of nowhere, Florida, many years ago, to care for his dying parents. When they passed, he stayed out of fear or boredom or loneliness. Whatever the reason, he has lived for years as a virtual recluse, visiting with another gay refugee, Earl, who lives nearby. Although Earl is almost 20 years older, they share the challenges of solitude. They watch old movies with a near reverence for the screen stars of yesteryear – Garbo, Better Davis, even the lesser luminaries like Delores del Rio. Each man has occasional, anonymous sexual encounters at a nearby boat launch – but they never visit together.As Earl’s age begins to evidently wear him down, our narrator both embraces and recoils from this sad friendship. He knows that when Earl passes, he will in essence become The Next Earl – with no one to be his occasional companion, the role he now plays.