The Great Night
by:
Chris Adrian (author)
Chris Adrian’s magical third novel is a mesmerizing reworking of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. On Midsummer’s Eve 2008, three brokenhearted people become lost in San Francisco’s Buena Vista Park, the secret home of Titania, Oberon, and their court. On this night, something awful is...
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Chris Adrian’s magical third novel is a mesmerizing reworking of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. On Midsummer’s Eve 2008, three brokenhearted people become lost 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 and the death of her adopted son, Titania has set loose an ancient menace, and the chaos that ensues upends the lives of immortals and mortals alike in a story that is playful, darkly funny, and poignant.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781250007384 (1250007380)
Publish date: May 8th 2012
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzI was bored by this book. I had trouble keeping the characters separate. I kept forgetting as I read what was back story and what was taking place in real time. I'm not sure why I finished; it was a chore.
This book takes place here:My parents used to take me to this park as a kid -- not often, it was farther away than the Panhandle. As a little urban child I thought it was like the real forest. And it is the real forest, in The Great Night, the forest that is endless, and dangerous, and beautiful, th...
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