Balthazar: a novel
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Alexandria quartet volume 2.
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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 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 "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
Subjects
Subjects
Alexandria (Egypt) -- Fiction
Durrell, Lawrence
Durrell, Lawrence. -- Alexandria quartet
Electronic books
Friendship
Friendship -- Fiction
Illegal arms transfers
Illegal arms transfers -- Fiction
Married women
Married women -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Fiction
Psychiatrists
Psychiatrists -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Fiction
Durrell, Lawrence
Durrell, Lawrence. -- Alexandria quartet
Electronic books
Friendship
Friendship -- Fiction
Illegal arms transfers
Illegal arms transfers -- Fiction
Married women
Married women -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Fiction
Psychiatrists
Psychiatrists -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Fiction
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ISBN:
9789629545864
9781453261422
9781453261422
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display_description | Once again Durrell writes of Justine, Melissa, Clea, Nessim, Pursewarden, Scobie, Pombal-but from a fresh point of view. THe new insights are provided by the psychiatrist, Balthazar, who convinces the narrator that the first volume of the story was almost wholly inaccurate. So this second volume is a correction and an expansion of the first. |
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publishDate | 1958, 1995, 2012 |
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subject_facet | Alexandria (Egypt) -- Fiction, Durrell, Lawrence. -- Alexandria quartet, Electronic books, Friendship -- Fiction, Illegal arms transfers -- Fiction, Married women -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Fiction, Psychiatrists -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Fiction |
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