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 caf??? 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- ...
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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 caf??? 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
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Add this copy of Balthazar to cart. $14.41, good condition, Sold by M Godding Books Ltd rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Devizes, WILTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1959 by Faber & Faber.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo); 1959 edition. Please note some stock images show a jacket, this copy does NOT include a jacket. Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Add this copy of Balthazar to cart. $14.78, good condition, Sold by Stephen White Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bradford, WEST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published by Faber & Faber.
Add this copy of Balthazar to cart. $4.47, good condition, Sold by crealivres rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from val couesnon, N/A, FRANCE, published 1963 by Livre de Poche.
Add this copy of Balthazar to cart. $6.79, good condition, Sold by crealivres rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from val couesnon, N/A, FRANCE, published 1963 by Livre de poche.
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Very Good. 1972. Paperback. Good clean copy in illustrated covers. Showing light shelf and reading wear, remains in good condition. Previous owner's mark on quarter title page.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Very Good. 1961. Paperback. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf and reading wear and with some underlining (in pencil), remains in good condition.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Very Good. 1958. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good. With bookplate inside front cover from the library of Michael Viney.
Add this copy of Balthazar to cart. $26.83, very good condition, Sold by Shadow Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Norwich, NORFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1958 by Faber & Faber.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Ex-Boots library with green shield on front boaqrds and little cicruar lable ring at head of spine. Unmarked, robust hardback first edition copy. A little fading to edges of blue boards and bumping to bottom corners.
Add this copy of Balthazar to cart. $9.50, good condition, Sold by Bookmans rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 1958 by E. P. Dutton.
