A theatre for dreamers / Polly Samson.
Publication details: London, UK : Bloomsbury, 2020.Description: 348 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781526600592
- 1526600552
- 9781526600554
- Jensen, Axel, 1932- -- Fiction
- Ihlen, Marianne -- Fiction
- Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016 -- Fiction
- Clift, Charmian -- Fiction
- Johnston, George Henry, 1912-1970 -- Fiction
- Authors -- Fiction
- Musicians -- Fiction
- Australians -- Greece -- Hydra Island -- Fiction
- Hydra Island (Greece) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- Poets -- Fiction
- Genius -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Artists -- Fiction
- Communities -- Fiction
- Hydra (Greece) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- 823.92 23/swe
- PR6069.A492 T44 2020
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Promoted book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | SAM | Available | 062880 |
Fiction.
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. Forming within this circle is a triangle: its points the magnetic, destructive writer Axel Jensen, his dazzlingly beautiful 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.
Adult.
