The Great Night - Softcover

Adrian, Chris

3.16

1,410 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847083218 ISBN 13: 9781847083210

Publisher: Granta Books, 2012

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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.

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Review:

'The most extraordinary novelist you've never heard of ... dazzling and heartbreaking, Adrian is a forceful potent writer' --Guardian

'This magical and fearless work is a near-blueprint of what a novel ought to be' --Observer

'A profoundly humane and moving work' --Sunday Telegraph

`A beguiling, troubling and undeniably potent brand of fiction ... Adrian gets under your skin and stays there' --Independent on Sunday

'A wonderful novel'
--Financial Times

About the Author:

Selected by the New Yorker as one of the '20 Under 40', CHRIS ADRIAN is the author of Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, A Better Angel and The Great Night. He is a Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist at Columbia University. He was awarded a New York Public Library Fellowship in 2011.

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