The dazzling second volume of The Alexandria Quartet --an enthralling and deeply disturbing work of gorgeous surfaces and endless deceptions. In Alexandra, in the years before the Second World War, an exiled Irish schoolteacher seeks to unravel his sexual obsession with two women: the tubercular caf??? dancer, Melissa, and Justine, the alluring Jewish wife of a wealthy Coptic Christian. What emerges in his sessions with the psychiatrist Balthazar, however, is something far more complex--and unfathomably more sinister- ...
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The dazzling second volume of The Alexandria Quartet --an enthralling and deeply disturbing work of gorgeous surfaces and endless deceptions. In Alexandra, in the years before the Second World War, an exiled Irish schoolteacher seeks to unravel his sexual obsession with two women: the tubercular caf??? dancer, Melissa, and Justine, the alluring Jewish wife of a wealthy Coptic Christian. What emerges in his sessions with the psychiatrist Balthazar, however, is something far more complex--and unfathomably more sinister--than neurosis. Lawrence Durrell's kaleidoscopic narrative ushers us into a world in which no perception is reliable--and love itself is always an act of treachery. "Durrell is one of the very best novelists of our time. . . . He has a sensuous, vigorous style that I have not found equaled by any other novelist today. . . . A spontaneous, resourceful new beauty that any sensitive reader will almost certainly love."-- The New York Book Review "It is difficult to sum up Balthazar ; it will not be contained. It spills or slips away like smoke. The sheer writing is superb. . . . A wonderful book, a book to read many times."-- The Houston Post
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo); 1959 edition. This copy does not have a dust jacket. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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Very Good. 1972. Paperback. Good clean copy in illustrated covers. Showing light shelf and reading wear, remains in good condition. Previous owner's mark on quarter title page.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Very Good. 1961. Paperback. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf and reading wear and with some underlining (in pencil), remains in good condition.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Ex-Boots library with green shield on front boaqrds and little cicruar lable ring at head of spine. Unmarked, robust hardback first edition copy. A little fading to edges of blue boards and bumping to bottom corners.