The Dreamers

by Gilbert Adair

  G.A.

  April 2003

  About the Author

  Gilbert Adair published novels, essays, translations, children’s books and poetry. He also wrote screenplays, including The Dreamers from his own novel for Bernardo Bertolucci. He died in 2011.

  Copyright

  A version of this book originally entitled The Holy Innocents was published in 1988.

  Published as The Dreamers in 2003

  by Faber & Faber Limited

  Bloomsbury House, 74–77 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DA

  This ebook edition first published in 2014

  All rights reserved

  © Gilbert Adair, 1988, 2003

  Cover artwork and photography © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved

  The right of Gilbert Adair to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library

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  ISBN 978–0–571–31981–7