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The Dreamers Paperback – Import, January 1, 2004

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A tale of sexual obsession set during the Paris street riots in 1968. The Dreamers is about a young American student who comes to Paris in 1968. Obsessed with film, he becomes involved with two fellow cineastes, a brother and sister whose incestuous relationship opens up to include him in their menage. Cocooned in their apartment the three of them push themselves further and further into excess until the violence in the streets invades their lives with violent consequences.
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    Faber & Faber
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    January 1, 2004
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    5.12 x 0.55 x 7.68 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0571216269
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0571216260
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber (January 1, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 193 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571216269
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571216260
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.12 x 0.55 x 7.68 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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GILBERT ADAIR was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1944 and moved to Paris as a young man, because, as he told an interviewer, "If you were a film buff in the sixties, you went to Paris." Adair later returned to the UK and spent his time writing experimental fiction, as well as film and literary criticism. His works include The Death of the Author, The Holy Innocents, later made into Bernardo Bertolucci's film The Dreamers; The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice, a book of literary criticism; and the novel Love and Death in Long Island. Adair lives in London.

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Scottie
5.0 out of 5 stars I can't stop!
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2011
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I have bought this book three times. I love it so much, and the second I find someone who may be interested in it, I give it away. I want everyone to read this one. I need to stop doing that because I love it so much, I NEED it for my own collection.
I'll save you my play-by-play analysis of the novel, but just trust me - if you're interested in it at all, you'll love it. It's such a wonderful story. I believe the world is far to consumed with the idea of something as "taboo" to just look beyond societal opinions and preconceptions and just live the life you were given.
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Jonathan
4.0 out of 5 stars The movie was pretty close
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2021
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A very quick read. I had just watched the movie and was obsessed with it. The book is okay. Definitely not his best work, however.
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Amanda
5.0 out of 5 stars A Dream
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This story was as intriguing as the movie with a few differences. Of course with the book there is more third person narration which explains the characters more and helps the reader gain insight into their crazy world.
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Daryl
3.0 out of 5 stars Half & Half
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2012
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This novel is a finely made sandwich with a piece of rotten meat in the middle. Adair's prose is solid and beautifully crafted enough that it got me through even the most self serving, pompous parts of the story. I was all on board for the dreamy, incestuous threesome part of the book, but then suddenly the characters were eating cat food, spewing vomit at each other, before finally smearing excrement on themselves like Indian war paint, and I had to finally admit that a level of art house funk had been achieved that I couldn't swallow.
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Karina Ramirez
5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING!
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2013
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Been looking for this. Love it. I couldn't put it down once it arrived but it did take a while to be shipped.
Other than that what's to complain about?
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Jonathan
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2018
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Great book!
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Angie P.
4.0 out of 5 stars Great, quick read!
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2009
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When I saw the movie I wanted to know more about where the story came from. I found that is was written by an author named Gilbert Adair who had originally wrote a book that was more racy and perverse titled, "The Holy Innocents" that I would love to read but cannot find it anywhere else but on the internet. "The Dreamers" is a toned down version of "The Holy Innocents" but is still worth the read. I read it in about a day. I really couldn't put it down once I started.
I would recommend it to a friend, but not to a grandmother of course ;)
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Sherif El Newehy
5.0 out of 5 stars superb first-rate literature
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2016
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superb first-rate literature
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Familia Rosado Pérez
5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent
Reviewed in Mexico on November 8, 2021
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Lo amo mucho, excelente adquisición <3
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Zara
3.0 out of 5 stars Mais polêmico do que o filme
Reviewed in Brazil on August 18, 2021
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Esse é um bom exemplo de filme que é (bem) melhor do que o livro. O próprio autor diz que não gostava do resultado do livro, e só aceitou que virasse filme quando recebeu um convite do Bernardo Bertolucci. Ele mesmo escreveu o roteiro do filme, suavizando algumas partes de seu livro. Além disso, por ser também uma homenagem ao cinema, isso funciona melhor em vídeo, onde são mostradas as cenas que são citadas na história.
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Sliman
5.0 out of 5 stars Livre
Reviewed in France on January 2, 2022
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Colis arrivé très rapidement et en bonne état. Rien à signaler.
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B.B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Captures a lost time.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2021
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Having seen the film by Bertolucci I was curious to read the book with screen play by the author.
As always film and book are not the same although this one follows it closely but with a differnet and I think better ending.
I enjoyed the book reminding me of other French writers, Cocteau and others.
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K.
5.0 out of 5 stars Où finit le théâtre? Où commence la vie?
Reviewed in Germany on August 24, 2018
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One of my all time favourite books (and movies). I've read it in three different languages: German - English - French. I know it by heart and still can't stop reading it. It is the only book that makes me cry every time I read the last couple of pages. It's not just a love story between three young people it's more than that. It's a book about friendship, about secrets, eroticism, a triangular relationship and love. About the student riots in Paris during 1968, the cinema and the idea of creating your own little world. It's happiness and the love and loss of life.
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