A theater for dreamers /
Samson, Polly,
A theater for dreamers / a novel by Polly Samson. - First edition. - 324 pages ; 24 cm
"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"-- 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.
9781643751498 1643751492
2020046436
Jensen, Axel, 1932- --Fiction.
Inlen, Marianne--Fiction.
Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016 --Fiction.
Artists--Fiction.
Communities--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Hydra (Greece)--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
A theater for dreamers / a novel by Polly Samson. - First edition. - 324 pages ; 24 cm
"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"-- 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.
9781643751498 1643751492
2020046436
Jensen, Axel, 1932- --Fiction.
Inlen, Marianne--Fiction.
Cohen, Leonard, 1934-2016 --Fiction.
Artists--Fiction.
Communities--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Hydra (Greece)--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.