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摘要

I could be highlighting this latest from Adrian because The New Yorker recently included him among America's top young writers in its "20 Under 40" feature. But in fact I'm doing it mostly because I'm entranced by the plot: a fresh and wild retelling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It's midsummer eve 2008 in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park, where Titania, Oberon, and the other faerie folk now reside in exile. Her adopted son dead, a grief-stricken Titania releases terrible forces upon the world-not good news for three mortals trapped in the park and inside the memories of a loved one whom each had lost or forsaken. Meanwhile, a homeless man wants to depose the city's evil mayor by staging a musical version of Soylent Green. Decidedly darker and crazier than Shakespeare's play, this should appeal to literary types of all stripes.