A Theatre for Dreamers
Author | : Polly Samson |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781443463492 |
ISBN-13 | : 1443463493 |
Rating | : 4/5 (493 Downloads) |
Download or read book A Theatre for Dreamers written by Polly Samson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.