The Great Night

"Adrian is such a forceful, potent writer that this non-realistic world commands its own searing, tangible realism on the page. For this isn't only a novel about magic and faeries, it's a novel about grief and loss and heartbreak . . . If you're willing to enter something magical, something dazzling and heartbreaking, then Adrian is a writer for you." -- Patrick Ness, "The Guardian " ." . . An enthralling nightmare. . . With the lusty, darkly comic finish comes an urge to wash one's hands while applauding; Adrian has twisted a romantic folly into a incredibly depraved orgy. Those who don't see the smut in Shakespeare might be shocked, but the Bard himself would likely be proud to see the bodily fluids spilled across one of his most beloved classics."-- Josh Davis, "Time Out New York" "Chris Adrian's novels puff you full of delight, then rips your heart out. Adrian's a sadist, maybe. Or maybe he's got the biggest heart of any living writer, so big that it can hold the sweetest thoughts alongside shame and also death -- real death, in all its devastation and splendor."--Eugenia Williamson, "The Boston Phoenix"
"Magical. . . Adrian. . . uses Shakespeare's comedy not for a virtuosic display of stylistic mimicry but as a vessel to help him access and contain the amazingly bountiful, sparkling 'jewels from the deep' (as the Bard called them) of his rich imagination."--Heller McAlpin, "National Public Radio"

"A wild ride--I found ["The Great Night"] almost viscerally thrilling, especially the experience of moving through [Adrian's] prose as it crackles and purrs . . . the most brilliant and profound reimagining in Adrian's vision isn't the way he magics the humans but the way he humanifies Shakespeare's fairies . . . Reading "The Great Night" was an extraordinary experience. When I finished it, I started it over again."--Alexandra Mullen, "The Barnes and Noble Review"

"Adrian has demonstrated a vast imagination in his earlier books, particularly "The Children's H