| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
324 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"In this novel based on real events and people, a young woman arrives on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960 and falls in with a bohemian group of poets, painters, and musicians, including the young Leonard Cohen and his beloved Marianne"-- Provided by publisher. |
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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. 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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Artists -- Fiction.
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Communities -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Hydra (Greece) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Artists. (OCoLC)fst00817559
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Communities. (OCoLC)fst01430092
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Interpersonal relations. (OCoLC)fst00977397
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Greece -- Hydra.
(OCoLC)fst01228635
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726537
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Biographical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781643751498 (hardcover) |
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1643751492 (hardcover) |
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