I'll Dream of You
Marc Pillsworth has everything a man of 1950s Manhattan should want: a successful advertising agency, a sleek office, and a steady life. But when he dreams of Toffee, a wild, impossible girl who laughs at gravity and speaks in poetry, he wakes to find her sitting on his desk. She is not a memory or a wish. She is real, materialized from the space between sleeping and waking, and she has come to rescue him from the gray tedium he calls adulthood. Their adventures explode across the city in a haze of chaos and charm, but Toffee carries a secret: she cannot stay in the waking world forever. As Marc confronts what he truly wants, the safe, sensible love of his secretary, Julie, or the dangerous thrill of a dream made flesh, Farrell poses a question that still haunts: is it better to settle for what is real, or to chase what feels magical, even knowing it will vanish? This is fantasy with teeth, a mid-century meditation on longing that refuses easy answers.
