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A theatre for dreamers / Polly Samson.
By: Samson, Polly.
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BookPublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2021Description: Paperback 20 cm.ISBN: 9781526600592 (pbk.) :; 1526600595 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): General Fiction | Hydra Island (Greece) -- History -- 20th century -- FictionSummary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult fiction book | Stockton Heath Library General fiction | FICTION (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34143110509054 |
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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.