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Balthazar

Balthazar

Durrell, Lawrence

Paperback

Series: Alexandria Quartet

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0140153217
ISBN13: 9780140153217
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jul 12 1991
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
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 café 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

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