TY  - BOOK
AU  - Samson, Polly, 
TI  - A theatre for dreamers
SN  - 9781526600592 [paperback]
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London, UK
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Artists
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Communities
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Hydra (Greece)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
N1  - The Sunday Times Best Seller; Adult
N2  - 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
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