A Theatre for Dreamers: The Sunday Times bestseller
Autor Polly Samsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526600592
ISBN-10: 1526600595
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526600595
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Caracteristici
Samson's
previous
novel,The
Kindness,
sold
almost
30,000
copies
and
was
described
by
India
Knight
as
'annoyingly
close
to
perfection'.
Her
work
has
been
shortlisted
for
prizes
including
the
Authors'
Club
First
Novel
Award,
the
VS
Pritchett
Memorial
Prize
and
the
Edge
Hill
Short
Story
Prize
Notă biografică
Polly Samson is the author of two short story collections and two previous novels. Her work has been shortlisted for numerous prizes, translated into several languages and has been dramatised on BBC Radio 4. A Theatre for Dreamers debuted at number 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. She has written lyrics for four Number One albums, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Most recently Polly Samson has written introductions to Muswell Press's 2021 reissues of Charmian Clift's Mermaid Singing and Peel Me a Lotus.pollysamson.com@PollySamson
Recenzii
Fills
the
back
of
your
eyes
with
light
like
an
Aegean
sky,
and
has
that
rare
and
lovely
quality
of
making
you
nostalgic
for
something
you
never
had
...
It
perfectly
takes
the
reader
into
a
different
world.
Which
we
could
all
do
with
As dreamily nostalgic as Cohen's song Famous Blue Raincoat
Sleazy, evocative, beautiful and entertaining
A thoroughly enjoyable drama of hedonism, enchantment and emotional beastliness
A coming of age story set among a group of artists and poets, including Leonard Cohen, on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960. She is so good at mentally indelible imagery
This well-crafted novel beautifully captures the texture of a halcyon age in which anything seems possible
Spellbinding . An immersive read, steeped in nostalgia. Samson's poetic prose is so evocative that, by the end, you find yourself googling those entrancing images of Hydra, 1960, just to wallow further in the poignancy of it all
The novel has a lightly worn heft to it, as it probes freedom and creativity . By the end of this enjoyable novel, which makes vivid an interesting moment and place, you discover people have paid a price - a heavy one - for that freedom in the sun
Samson recreates one heady summer there with impeccably ripening prose .This is a slow, deliberately languorous novel that mixes real-life figures with fictional counterparts. It is sunbaked, stewed in alcohol, and wonderfully gossipy
Intoxicating ... Highly accomplished ... A testament to Samson's transportive prose
A surefire summer hit ... Feels at once like a gift and an escape route ... At once a blissful piece of escapism and a powerful meditation on art and sexuality - just the book to bring light into these dark days
Heady armchair escapism ... An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience
By the end the reader may be unable to decide whether Hydra enchanted or cursed those attracted by its primitive beauty, cheap rents and easy access to sex, drugs and performance poetry . A novel about the treatment of women by artistic men
Beautiful ... Perfect if you want to escape the drudgery of another lentil dinner and dream of 1960s Hydra with Leonard Cohen
It is a grand read and the prose falls translucently like the air ... Superb work and a delightful novel
Such a lyrical, elegant and beautifully told story
So vivid that you can see the sun-washed white houses and blue seas
I cannot tell you how much I needed this beautiful book to transport me back to 1960s Greece! Lyrical, sexy, tender and sad in places. Highly recommended
This radiant novel will transport you straight to Greece - a blessing at a time when most of us are stuck in our homes
Delicious
Dreamily nostalgic
About real people living in Hydra in 1960. Steeped in nostalgia that's both sad and beautiful. It's fascinating, immersive and so MOVING
Hands down the best book I've read all year. Luminous, immersive, gorgeous, profound
Her best work yet, so evocative and alive with the scents and colours of a Greek summer ... Among the best prose writers of her generation. The writing is just delicious
I was utterly entranced. It feels entirely true and effortless and compelling - in the way that all great novels do
If summer was suddenly like a novel, it would be like this one. Immaculate
A seductive story, suffused with nostalgia
This is a sheer delight - I've never been to Hydra but this book transports you and miraculously, you are there in 1960
A glorious novel
A beautifully written, evocative, inspiring novel. I devoured it
Polly Samson has created such a dazzling evocation of an era and its mindset. Here, the island of Hydra is a geographical place but a psychological one too, populated by beautiful and damaged characters who pull you down into its pages for another café gossip, another moonlit swim, another drink. This book is a bohemian idyll meticulously drawn, and unsparingly exposed. It is like going away to paradise, then coming back rather wiser. You don't read this book - you live it
A luscious seduction of a book
Samson's story sizzles with the Greek sun and seduction
Praise for The Kindness: 'An addictive, cleverly structured and intriguing relationship story of lies and flawed communication
Annoyingly close to perfection
A story that entices you to revel in its languid, beautifully written prose while demanding that you turn the page to discover the secrets it holds
Beautifully written, with twists engineered like a thriller
A book to cherish, to recommend, to return to
Brilliant, tender and beautiful
Beautifully written and plotted with serpentine cunning, Samson's novel is what might be called a love story for adults: unsentimental, at times harsh, but ultimately uplifting
Gorgeously chilling . Samson seems to write in colours
Shining, poetic and sumptuous . Polly Samson is a writer of great insight and sensitivity
A richly sensory writer . A sumptuous, serious story
Lush, lyrical prose . The Kindness is to be read more than once, not merely to enjoy again the beauty of the writing and the considerable insights into human experience, but to test the earlier narrative with the knowledge of what is to come
Compelling . Atmospheric and vividly told, the book is a poignant examination of love, guilt, betrayal and the deception that can lie at the heart of every relationship
Family proves far from idyllic in this poetic, sensual story of betrayal and lies. Writer and lyricist Samson's prose is dazzlingly evocative, as she explores how relationships are rarely what they seem
Secrets and misunderstandings fuel Polly Samson's involving, melancholy and cleverly constructed second novel . This is a mature and haunting novel about love and loss that asks if we all, in the end, see what we want to see
This is elegant, witty writing, informed throughout by generosity and wise perceptiveness. Dealing with many kinds of love, and with misunderstanding, betrayal, grief and forgiveness, the novel dares to posit, ultimately, the possibility of redemption. It is a book to cherish, to recommend, to return to
Intensely evocative . Samson treats this difficult subject with candour and compassion . The novel's effortlessness, its readability, sweeps everything in its wake . This is a book to relax into
Polly Samson's mastery of the English language is powerful and impressive
As dreamily nostalgic as Cohen's song Famous Blue Raincoat
Sleazy, evocative, beautiful and entertaining
A thoroughly enjoyable drama of hedonism, enchantment and emotional beastliness
A coming of age story set among a group of artists and poets, including Leonard Cohen, on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960. She is so good at mentally indelible imagery
This well-crafted novel beautifully captures the texture of a halcyon age in which anything seems possible
Spellbinding . An immersive read, steeped in nostalgia. Samson's poetic prose is so evocative that, by the end, you find yourself googling those entrancing images of Hydra, 1960, just to wallow further in the poignancy of it all
The novel has a lightly worn heft to it, as it probes freedom and creativity . By the end of this enjoyable novel, which makes vivid an interesting moment and place, you discover people have paid a price - a heavy one - for that freedom in the sun
Samson recreates one heady summer there with impeccably ripening prose .This is a slow, deliberately languorous novel that mixes real-life figures with fictional counterparts. It is sunbaked, stewed in alcohol, and wonderfully gossipy
Intoxicating ... Highly accomplished ... A testament to Samson's transportive prose
A surefire summer hit ... Feels at once like a gift and an escape route ... At once a blissful piece of escapism and a powerful meditation on art and sexuality - just the book to bring light into these dark days
Heady armchair escapism ... An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience
By the end the reader may be unable to decide whether Hydra enchanted or cursed those attracted by its primitive beauty, cheap rents and easy access to sex, drugs and performance poetry . A novel about the treatment of women by artistic men
Beautiful ... Perfect if you want to escape the drudgery of another lentil dinner and dream of 1960s Hydra with Leonard Cohen
It is a grand read and the prose falls translucently like the air ... Superb work and a delightful novel
Such a lyrical, elegant and beautifully told story
So vivid that you can see the sun-washed white houses and blue seas
I cannot tell you how much I needed this beautiful book to transport me back to 1960s Greece! Lyrical, sexy, tender and sad in places. Highly recommended
This radiant novel will transport you straight to Greece - a blessing at a time when most of us are stuck in our homes
Delicious
Dreamily nostalgic
About real people living in Hydra in 1960. Steeped in nostalgia that's both sad and beautiful. It's fascinating, immersive and so MOVING
Hands down the best book I've read all year. Luminous, immersive, gorgeous, profound
Her best work yet, so evocative and alive with the scents and colours of a Greek summer ... Among the best prose writers of her generation. The writing is just delicious
I was utterly entranced. It feels entirely true and effortless and compelling - in the way that all great novels do
If summer was suddenly like a novel, it would be like this one. Immaculate
A seductive story, suffused with nostalgia
This is a sheer delight - I've never been to Hydra but this book transports you and miraculously, you are there in 1960
A glorious novel
A beautifully written, evocative, inspiring novel. I devoured it
Polly Samson has created such a dazzling evocation of an era and its mindset. Here, the island of Hydra is a geographical place but a psychological one too, populated by beautiful and damaged characters who pull you down into its pages for another café gossip, another moonlit swim, another drink. This book is a bohemian idyll meticulously drawn, and unsparingly exposed. It is like going away to paradise, then coming back rather wiser. You don't read this book - you live it
A luscious seduction of a book
Samson's story sizzles with the Greek sun and seduction
Praise for The Kindness: 'An addictive, cleverly structured and intriguing relationship story of lies and flawed communication
Annoyingly close to perfection
A story that entices you to revel in its languid, beautifully written prose while demanding that you turn the page to discover the secrets it holds
Beautifully written, with twists engineered like a thriller
A book to cherish, to recommend, to return to
Brilliant, tender and beautiful
Beautifully written and plotted with serpentine cunning, Samson's novel is what might be called a love story for adults: unsentimental, at times harsh, but ultimately uplifting
Gorgeously chilling . Samson seems to write in colours
Shining, poetic and sumptuous . Polly Samson is a writer of great insight and sensitivity
A richly sensory writer . A sumptuous, serious story
Lush, lyrical prose . The Kindness is to be read more than once, not merely to enjoy again the beauty of the writing and the considerable insights into human experience, but to test the earlier narrative with the knowledge of what is to come
Compelling . Atmospheric and vividly told, the book is a poignant examination of love, guilt, betrayal and the deception that can lie at the heart of every relationship
Family proves far from idyllic in this poetic, sensual story of betrayal and lies. Writer and lyricist Samson's prose is dazzlingly evocative, as she explores how relationships are rarely what they seem
Secrets and misunderstandings fuel Polly Samson's involving, melancholy and cleverly constructed second novel . This is a mature and haunting novel about love and loss that asks if we all, in the end, see what we want to see
This is elegant, witty writing, informed throughout by generosity and wise perceptiveness. Dealing with many kinds of love, and with misunderstanding, betrayal, grief and forgiveness, the novel dares to posit, ultimately, the possibility of redemption. It is a book to cherish, to recommend, to return to
Intensely evocative . Samson treats this difficult subject with candour and compassion . The novel's effortlessness, its readability, sweeps everything in its wake . This is a book to relax into
Polly Samson's mastery of the English language is powerful and impressive
Descriere
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Delicious' Nigella Lawson'Clever and beguiling' Guardian'Sublime and immersive' Jojo MoyesErica is eighteen and ready for freedom. It's the summer of 1960 when she lands on the sun-baked Greek island of Hydra where she is swept up in a circle of bohemian poets, painters, musicians, writers and artists, living tangled lives. Life on their island paradise is heady, dream-like, a string of seemingly endless summer days. But nothing can last forever.'A surefire summer hit ... At once a blissful piece of escapism and a powerful meditation on art and sexuality' Observer'Heady armchair escapism ... An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience' Sunday Times'If summer was suddenly like a novel, it would be like this one. Immaculate' Andrew O'Hagan