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Description
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 king and queen of bohemia. Forming within this circle is a triangle: its points the magnetic, destructive writer Axel Jensen, his dazzling wife Marianne Ihlen, and a young Canadian poet named Leonard Cohen.
Into their midst arrives teenage Erica, 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 the wars waged between men and women on the battlegrounds of genius.
Product details
| Published | 02 Apr 2020 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 368 |
| ISBN | 9781526600554 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Circus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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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
Observer
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Brings to life this world of silver-spangled seas, scrumptious food and bohemian bed-hopping
The Times and Sunday Times, Best Fiction Books of the Year 2020
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One of the year's most lushly enjoyable novels, published during lockdown, it transports us straight to a Greek island and leaves us yearning for the sight of a lemon tree against a turquoise sea
Daily Telegraph, The Best Novels of 2020
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Beautifully crafted, this book evokes a lost douceur de vivre
Financial Times, Readers Picks
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Samson's sun-saturated novel set on the Greek island of Hydra might be just the escapism you need right now … Samson captures the darkness, emerging fractures and the beauty of their lives in a sharply feminist novel
Daily Mail, Best Novels of 2020
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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























