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...Justine, Balthazar, Mount Olive, and Clea-Durrell...
...CLEA, by Lawrence Durrell. Last of a quartet of novels in which Durrell, one of the few real English stylists alive, examines the shifting nature of truth against the sultry background of old Alexandria and through the devious natures of the kind of odd cast of characters that only Durrell can assemble...
...Advise and Consent, Drury (3) 3. Hawaii, Michener (1) 4. The Chapman Report, Wallace (4) 5. The View from the Fortieth Floor, White (9) 6. The Affair, Snow (5) 7. Water of Life, Robinson (7) 8. The Constant Image, Davenport (8) 9. Trustee from the Toolroom, Shute 10. Clea, Durrell NONFICTION 1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (2) 2. Born Free, Adamson ( 1 ) 3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (3) 4. I Kid You Not, Paar (4) 5. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips (6) 6. How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, Darvas...
Collected Poems, by Lawrence Durrell. The novelist who wrote the impressive Alexandria tetralogy-Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea-makes his appearance as a poet with technical flash and soaring imagery...
...poet, some say, is to live more intensely than other men. By such a definition, Irish Author Lawrence Durrell must live continuously atop a volcano of awareness. His recent four-decker novel of Egypt's Alexandria-which opened with Justine and closed with Clea-is a ferment of emotions and evocations of place that already ranks with the best sensuous and sexual writing of the decade, if not of the century. In it the poet was constantly overriding the novelist and giving an intrinsically imaginative setting and characters a febrile quality that owed more to Durrell's soaring...