So Long, Marianne (tp): A Love Story ― includes rare material by Leonard Cohen Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Among the best prose writers of her generation. Luminous, immersive, gorgeous, profound -- Joanne Harris I was utterly entranced. My holiday to Greece was cancelled this year, for obvious reasons, but I feel like I've been away and finishing this book is like a sad home-coming. Immaculate

This website uses cookies to improve user experience. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try your request again later.This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Here, the island of Hydra is a geographical place but a psychological one too, populated by beautiful and damaged characters who pull you down into its pages for another café gossip, another moonlit swim, another drink.

It's beautifully written & emotions expressed about the people the island & the glorious food are to be devoured. For someone of a similar age this brings back memories and shines a light on an important period in the 20th century

Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations I didn’t love the book.I do not think it was well researched. “Polly Samson has created such a dazzling evocation of an era and its mindset. Cohen is painted in a tentative manner while Marianne is revered. Settling on the periphery of this circle, she watches, entranced and disquieted, as a paradise unravels.

1960. Superb work and a delightful novel -- Thomas Keneally Hands down the best book I've read all year. Founded by Jack Sparks, CWLF was featured in the June 1971 Time Magazine's epic ""Jesus Revolution"" edition. This is a mature and haunting novel about love and loss that asks if we all, in the end, see what we want to see * METRO * This is elegant, witty writing, informed throughout by generosity and wise perceptiveness. Reading A Theatre for Dreamers was like meandering through a patchwork of confusing events and rambling conversations that lacked context and structure. So disappointed by this. “Spellbinding … An immersive read, steeped in nostalgia.

Highly recommended Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. The characters are wonderfully drawn and true to life (at least the ones I knew) and the descriptions of the island and the way of life are superb. It features a young poet called Leonard Cohen and a muse called MarianneSamson imagines it all with sultry precision in this utterly transporting, bittersweet portrait of youthful and sexual idealismPolly Samson is the author of two short story collections and two previous novels.

The sun doesn't pound on the waterfront and cats don't scavenge for fishtails on facebook.

Although it is years since I was on Hydra island, reading this book took me back to my youth and the carefree way of life there in the 60s and 70s. The freedom, the innocence, the lack of cynicism are alas gone.

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.

Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations “Set on sun-drenched Hydra in the 1960s, this novel follows teenage Erica, who runs away from her strict father in London and joins the island's bickering bohemian community of writers and artists.

A Theatre for Dreamers This wonderful book is in a way a lament for the passage of time, a performance in The Theatre for Dreamers, dreamers of the dream in which you waken, never know what it conceals.

Although it is years since I was on Hydra island, reading this book took me back to my youth and the carefree way of life there in the 60s and 70s.

I so loved being lost in its pages. I so loved being lost in its pages. 1960.

An Observer Fiction Highlight 2020 “This radiant novel will transport you straight to Greece - a blessing at a time when most of us are stuck in our homes” – 

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