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Three lovers and comrades seek happiness in a dilapidated chateau near history-enveloped Avignon, but must contend with madness, eerie obsessions, and darker demonic forces.
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Grave, intimate, bleak and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Lawrence Durrell
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 305
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics), Pocket Books, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670486786
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Lawrence George Durrell (Jalandhar, India, 27 February 1912-Sommières, France, 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. Durrell resisted being associated solely with the UK and preferred to be considered a cosmopolitan. His most famous work is *The Alexandria Quartet,* published between 1957 and 1960. The best-known novel in the series is the first, *Justine.* He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.
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