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Mountolive (Alexandria Quartet)

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Mountolive (Alexandria Quartet)

The intrigues of Justine and Balthazar multiply and deepen in the third volume of the Alexandria Quartet, giving us a novel of labyrinthine intricacy and mesmerizing beauty.

In the first two novels of this profoundly innovative masterpiece, Lawrence Durrell explored two sides of a romantic quadrangle involving several inhabitants of prewar Alexandria. Now that geometry is seen from a startling new angleâ€”through the clinical eye of a British diplomat, for whom love is only another form of statecraft. Like its predecessors, Mountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the explosive passions of the modern Middle East.

â€œDurrell is almost without peer in conveying atmosphere and mood. Even if his Alexandria never existed on this earth, it is now as real as Hawthorneâ€™s Rome, Proustâ€™s Paris, Lotiâ€™s Constantinople. . . . Mountolive is dazzlingly cohesive, beautifully controlled from beginning to end.â€â€”Saturday Review

â€œA work of splendid craft and troubling veracity.â€â€”The New York Times

â€œMountolive has vivid imagery and scenes of ghastly hilarity. . . . Readers will be sharply aware that they are encountering an acute intelligence pursuing a grand design.â€â€”TIME

Country	USA
Author	Lawrence Durrell
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Penguin
EAN	9780140153200
Feature	Great product!
ISBN	0140153209
Label	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	320
PublicationDate	1991-07-12
Publisher	Penguin
ReleaseDate	1991-07-12
Studio	Penguin

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