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A Theatre for Dreamers: A Novel de Polly Samson

A Theatre for Dreamers: A Novel

Autor Polly Samson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 mai 2021
1960. The world is dancing on the edge of revolution, and nowhere more so than on the Greek island of Hydra, where a circle of poets, painters and musicians live tangled lives, ruled by the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, troubled queen and king of bohemia. Forming within this circle is a triangle: its points the magnetic, destructive writer Axel Jensen; his dazzling wife, Marianne Ihlen; and the young Canadian poet Leonard Cohen.

Into their midst arrives Erica, a teenager with little more than a bundle of blank notebooks and her grief for her mother. Settling on the periphery of this circle, she watches, entranced and disquieted, as a paradise unravels.

Burning with the heat and light of Greece, A Theatre for Dreamers is a spellbinding novel about utopian dreams and innocence lost, and about the wars waged between men and women on the battlegrounds of genius.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781443463485
ISBN-10: 1443463485
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperCollins Publishers

Recenzii

"A coming-of-age story which slyly interrogates the creative battle of the sexes while transporting you to the beauty of a Greek island in summer." — Cressida Connolly, Spectator Books of the Year
"Samson captures the darkness, emerging fractures and the beauty of their lives in a sharply feminist novel." — Daily Mail (UK)
"One of the year’s most lushly enjoyable novels." — Daily Telegraph (London)
"Brings to life this world of silver-spangled seas, scrumptious food and bohemian bed-hopping." — The Times (UK)
“An alluring historical novel. . . [and] a delectable work of escapism. Set on the impossibly picturesque Greek island of Hydra, it focuses on a group of expatriate writers and artists living the bohemian life in 1960. . . . Brilliant people in a beautiful setting add up to seductive time travel, with an edge.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Polly Samson’s latest is a lush and dreamy summer read.” — Hello! Canada
“The gilded idyll of English writer Polly Samson’s A Theatre for Dreamers will transport you to the Greek island of Hydra with immersive, sensual prose: you smell the lemon trees, taste the retsina, hear the bouzouki—and long for a refreshing afternoon swim in the Aegean.” — Zoomer Magazine
“[A] fantastic summer read.” — CBC Books

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

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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