'The most exhilarating surge of language, style and sordid English manners you might ever see in literature.' DBC Pierre 'A wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza ... Richly obscene, energetically morbid, very often very funny ... Above all, stylistically and verbally inventive.' Observer . Death Gregory has disappeared, abandoning his diaries in a seedy London hotel. Discovered by Lawrence Lucifer, they depict a clique of intellectuals living a life of squalid debauchery: struggling writers and ...
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'The most exhilarating surge of language, style and sordid English manners you might ever see in literature.' DBC Pierre 'A wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza ... Richly obscene, energetically morbid, very often very funny ... Above all, stylistically and verbally inventive.' Observer . Death Gregory has disappeared, abandoning his diaries in a seedy London hotel. Discovered by Lawrence Lucifer, they depict a clique of intellectuals living a life of squalid debauchery: struggling writers and artists consumed by loves, lusts, and a quest for innovation. But as they satisfy violent appetites of the flesh - and mind - their descent into darkness accelerates ... Written when he was only 24, Lawrence Durrell described his controversial third novel as 'a two-fisted attack on literature by an angry young man of the thirties' in which he 'first heard the sound of my own voice.' First published in Paris in 1938, it was banned in Britain for nearly four decades due to its 'obscenity' (influenced by Durrell's friend Henry Miller). Vivid, surrealist, and haunting, The Black Book peers into the recesses of our souls: and establishes Durrell as a trailblazing stylist. 'Stygian prose ... Words like stones, throwing, rockerying, mossing, churning, sharpening, bloodsucking, melting, and a hard firewater flows and rolls through them.' Dylan Thomas 'Genuine art ... Lavishly displays Durrell's gift of language ... Verbal brilliance.' New York Times 'The first piece of work by a new English writer to give me any hope for the future of prose fiction.' T.S. Eliot 'Durrell's first major work ... Its showy brilliance is certainly that of a born writer ... Savage and obscene.'Guardian 'Brilliantly strange ... It will astonish.' Independent on Sunday
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 7x4x1; The jacket is shelf rubbed with creasing around the edges. The boards are tidy overall with little edge wear. The binding is secure. Browning on the early and late pages. No inscriptions or annotations. Protected in cellophane. r*17/01/2024 JHK.
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Good in fair dust jacket. Signed by author. 243 p. Head of spine has slight bump. Inscribed by author on half title page to Sydney Pollack with black marker. Stain on Contents page. Book otherwise clean and unmarked with tight binding. DJ rubbed, edge worn and chipped.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Black cloth, lettering stamped in white on upper board and spine; pictorial dust jacket; 8vo; pp. [244]. Signed by Durrell on the half-title page. Book is fine, in near fine dust jacket with just some light scuffing along the edges.