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The Dreamers by Gilbert Adair, brilliant in its narrative invention and startling in its imagery, belongs to the romantic French tradition of Les Enfants Terribles and Le Grand Meaulnes, and resembles no other work in recent British fiction.

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Gilbert Adair's novels include The Holy Innocents, Love and Death on Long Island, The Death of the Author, The Key of the Tower and A Closed Book. He is also the author of a full-length verse parody of Pope - The Rape of the Cock, and two sequels to classics of children's literature - Alice Through the Needle's Eye and Peter Pan and the Only Children. His non-fiction includes Hollywood's Vietnam, Myths and Memories, The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice, Flickers and Surfing the Zeitgeist. He was awarded the Scott-Moncrieff prize for his translation of George Perec's 'e'-less A Void. He lives in London and is regularly published as a journalist.

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'Piquant and riveting' Anthony Burgess

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