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The second instalment of the Alexandria Quartet, begins with the narrator from Justine living on a Greek island with the illegitimate daughter of his former lover, Melissa. The reader soon learns that many of the details from the first novel are unreliable and a very different version of events is gradually untangled.
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Prestige, grave, open-ended and contemplative.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Lawrence Durrell
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- Sudamericana, pocket books, inc., Pocket Books
- Editions
- 74
- Language
- German, French, Russian, heb
- ISBN
- 9780525470816
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“Landscape-tones: brown to bronze, steep skyline, low cloud, pearl ground with shadowed oyster and violet reflections.”
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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