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The Great Night
The Great Night: A Novel | Chris Adrian
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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 Nighta 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 novela story that charts the borders between reality and dreams, love and magic, and mortality and immortality.
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peanutnine
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Mehso-so

I am not sure how I feel about this one. It was like a train wreck that I couldn't look away from 😂 I picked it up because it was described as a retelling of A Midsummer Nights Dream and while the basic structure is there, it veers off course quickly. Giving it a so-so because I can't stop thinking about the madness and there's a lot still to unpack.
Finished for #OutstandingOctober @Andrew65

Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 3y
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peanutnine
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Spending the afternoon enjoying some music, sunshine, and a good book at the US National Whitewater Center's Tuck Fest.
Happy Saturday y'all ☺️

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peanutnine
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I went to the library today to pick up a book I had on hold and when I got there they told me another of my holds had come in early. Yaaayyy! 😊
#libraryhaul

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Moray_Reads
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7 days 7 covers. Post a book cover you love. No explanation, no information on the book. Just a cover you love.

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Kalalalatja Stunning! 7y
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Moray_Reads
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Chris Adrian retells the take off A Midsummer Night's Dream in Buena Vista Park, San Francisco and it is is a thing of dark, twisty, magical beauty #downinthepark #nuyear
@Cinfhen @TrishB

Cinfhen Gorgeous photo and book cover💜book sounds good, too 😊 7y
Moray_Reads @Cinfhen it was a five star for me last year 7y
TrishB Awesome picture ❤️ 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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Perfect day for the #retelling prompt on the #sizzlinsummerbooks challenge. This is a retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream which was already on my radar but when @Moray_Reads posted this gorgeous UK cover by Fables cover artist James Jean, well... #bookmail

This looks too good to relegate to the TBR. I am planning on reading this very soon.

vivastory That looks fantastic. Might have to break my book buying ban for that 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @vivastory I did! No regrets! 7y
Linear The UK gets the prettiest covers 7y
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Laalaleighh Def ordering that 📚 7y
Moray_Reads I loved this one and the cover is to die for 😍 7y
readinginthedark That cover is amazing! 😍And retellings of Shakespeare will always tempt me. 7y
Linear Ooo i love that butterfly looking thing on her neck 7y
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Moray_Reads
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Pickpick

What a glorious novel, possibly my favourite by Chris Adrian, and I've loved all of them. This take on A Midsummer Night's Dream is raucously funny and wonderfully inventive but it's also dark and unsettling and bone-achingly sad and the fantastical elements linguistic playfulness only throw the keen insight into love and loss and grief into sharper relief. Any more details would just do you a disservice.

saresmoore Oh, yes, please! 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk Yeah, I'm gonna own this. Preferably with that James Jean cover. 7y
Moray_Reads @TobeyTheScavengerMonk @saresmoore I just love his writing. It's no holds barred and frightening and funny and earthy and beautiful. James Jean's covers really capture the mood 7y
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Moray_Reads
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I absolutely love these Granta covers of Chris Adrian's books. They're the perfect mix of beautiful and unsettling, just one more to get in this style

Kalalalatja Do you know who the cover artist is? They look beautiful! 7y
Moray_Reads @Kalalalatja his name is James Jean, aren't they lovely? 7y
Kalalalatja They really are! 7y
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Kalalalatja Which book would you recommend starting with? They sound so interesting all of them! 😄 7y
Moray_Reads @Kalalalatja I read The Children's Hospital first not realising that there's some overlap with Gob's Grief. It's great on its own but probably better with the backstory from GG. I haven't read The Great Night but I think that one's a standalone 7y
Kalalalatja Good to know! More books to the ever growing tbr list 📚 7y
Moray_Reads @Kalalalatja I know. It's only 4 June and I've already bought 16 books 🙈🙈 7y
Kalalalatja Oh wow! I am kinda jealous 😄 I have a serious book buying craving, but I have to control myself until I have been on vacation. But I have a feeling that July will be really new-books-heavy for me 😄 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk Gorgeous! James Jean's Fables covers are equally amazing. 7y
vivastory These covers are amazing! 7y
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