The Holy Innocents

Basis for Bernardo Bertolucci's film THE DREAMERS, set during the 1968 student uprisings in Paris about two siblings, a brother and a sister,. who draw a repressed American student into their games involving homosexuality, incest and sadism. Adair's novel was itself homage to Jean Cocteau's novel THE HOLY TERRORS, about incestuous siblings and the stranger who enters their world.


Genre: Literary Fiction

"In the tradition of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles, considered a masterpiece. This is a far better book." - Anthony Burgess