On Midsummer's Eve three heartsick lovers are trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park. Ill met by moonlight, they are stalked by a psychopathic Puck, in thrall to a beautiful Titania, and ambushed by a homeless musical theatre troupe. Together they must survive a night that might just repair their hearts, if it doesn't destroy them first. Selected by the New Yorker as one of the best young writers in America, Adrian has created a singularly playful, moving and humorous novel - a story that effortlessly crosses the borders between reality and dreams, suffering and magic, and mortality and immortality.
ISBN: | 9781847083210 |
Publication date: | 7th June 2012 |
Author: | Chris Adrian |
Publisher: | Granta Books |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 304 pages |
Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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