Clea
Lawrence Durrell
288 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0140153225
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Language: English
Publish: 679302000000
20th CenturyAfricaBritish LiteratureClassicsEgyptFictionHistorical FictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNovels
The magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the postwar era.
Few books have been awaited as eagerly as Clea, the sensuous and electrically suspenseful novel that resolves the enigmas of the Alexandria Quartet. Some years and one world war was after his bizarre liaisons with Melissa and Justine, the Irish émigré Darley becomes enmeshed with the bisexual artist Clea. That affair not only changes the lovers, it transforms the dead as well, revealing new layers of duplicity and desire, perversity and pathos in Lawrence Durrell’s masterly construction.