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Mountolive

Mountolive

Durrell, Lawrence

Paperback

Series: Alexandria Quartet

RomanceHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0140153209
ISBN13: 9780140153200
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jul 12 1991
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.73
Language: English
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 angle--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.

Durrell is almost without peer in conveying atmosphere and mood. Even if his Alexandria never existed on this earth, it is now as real as Hawthorne's Rome, Proust's Paris, Loti's Constantinople. . . . Mountolive is dazzlingly cohesive, beautifully controlled from beginning to end.--Saturday Review

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