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Acclaimed as a "gifted, courageous writer"( The New York Times), Chris Adrian brings all his extraordinary talents to bear in The Great Night -a brilliant and mesmerizing retelling of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." On Midsummer Eve 2008, three people, each on the run from a failed relationship, become trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park, the secret home of Titania, Oberon, and their court. On this night, something awful is happening in the faerie kingdom: in a fit of sadness over the end of her marriage, which broke up in the wake of the death of her adopted son, Titania has set loose an ancient menace, and the chaos that ensues will threaten the lives of immortals and mortals alike. Selected by The New Yorker as one the best young writers in America, Adrian has created a singularly playful, heartbreaking, and humorous novel-a story that charts the borders between reality and dreams, love and magic, and mortality and immortality.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374166412
ISBN-13
9780374166410
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99579447

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Book Title
Great Night : a Novel
Author
Chris Adrian
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Fantasy / General, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Literary
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3551.D75g74 2011
Reviews
"Adrian, currently a fellow in pediatric oncology at the University of California, San Francisco, and a Harvard Divinity School student, covered smaller, more controlled canvases in his previous works- Gob's Grief and The Children's Hospital , and the story collection A Better Angel . The Great Night -by turns brilliant, cruel, tenderhearted, visionary, poetic, and profane-is Adrian's ambitious attempt to fetch from his own imagination what Shakespeare referred to as 'jewels from the deep.'"-Lisa Shea, Elle "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream deals with illusion-in particular, the illusion that things can be set aright, as if by magic. This riff by New Yorker 20 Under 40 author Adrian ( A Better Angel ) is a whole lot darker, declaring that no magic can take away the memory of suffering and that in our self-serving scramble we disdain the pain (and indeed the goodness) of others. On the summer solstice in San Francisco, the fairies come out from under their hill in Buena Vista Park to celebrate Great Night. But this year there will be no celebration, for Oberon has vanished and Titania is thoroughly undone by the death of her Boy, one of the many changelings brought to her by Puck--no mischievous sprite but a malevolent spirit. Even as a rowdy bunch rehearse a play aimed at exposing the mayor's crimes against the homeless, three people are trapped in the park by the fairies' madness: uptight Molly, lovesick Will, and gentle, obsessed Henry, who still misses decamped lover Bobby and whose tragic past and connections to other characters unfold tantalizingly. Verdict: Inventive and scarily beautiful, this could wipe out casual readers, but it is an extraordinary novel."- Library Journal (starred review)
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2010-047603
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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