The Holy Innocents (novel)
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The Holy Innocents is a novel
by Gilbert Adair
. A French/British/Italian film adaptation
of the novel, The Dreamers, was made in 2003. The book has only been printed in hardcover and paperback only once. Thus, remaining copies of the novel fetch hefty prices on auction websites such as eBay
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Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair is a Scottish author, film critic and journalist. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award in 1988 for his novel The Holy Innocents. In 1995 he won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void, which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges Perec...
. A French/British/Italian film adaptation
Film adaptation
Film adaptation is the transfer of a written work to a feature film. It is a type of derivative work.A common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis of a feature film, but film adaptation includes the use of non-fiction , autobiography, comic book, scripture, plays, and even...
of the novel, The Dreamers, was made in 2003. The book has only been printed in hardcover and paperback only once. Thus, remaining copies of the novel fetch hefty prices on auction websites such as eBay
EBay
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