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Dream Sequence

Adam Foulds

2019200 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2019
first published
  • 2019Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9781473555952
  • 2019Biblioasis · 200 pages · ENGISBN 9781771962810
  • 2019Penguin Random House · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9781787330825
  • 2019Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780374718763
  • 2020Penguin Random House · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9781784708511
  • 2020Picador · 224 pagesISBN 9781250619471
  • 2019Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 224 pagesISBN 9780374143701

Henry became famous starring in The Grange, a television drama beloved by mothers and wives, and whose fans speak about the characters as though they were real people . . . yet Henry dreams of escaping the small screen. An audition for a movie directed by a highly respected Spanish auteur holds the promise of a way forward. Whether holed up in his apartment eating monkish meals of rice and steamed vegetables or snorting cocaine at desert parties in Doha, Henry’s awareness of his own image, of his relative place in the world, is acute and constant. But Henry has also―unwittingly―become an important part of the life of recently divorced Kristin. He appears repeatedly on the television in her beautiful, empty Philadelphia house, and her social media feeds bring news of his London home, his family. What Kristin wants is simply to get as close to him in real life as she has in her fandom.

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