The Greek Islands

The Greek Islands
Lawrence Durrell
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 352pg
1 Jul 2021 UK
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9780571362417
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' Incandescent. ' - Andre Aciman ' Nobody knows the Greek islands like Durrell. ' - New York Times White-washed houses drenched in pink bougainvillea; dazzling seascapes and rugged coastlines; colourful harbours in quaint fishing villages; shady olive and cypress groves; terraces bathed in the Aegean sun . . . The Greek islands conjure up a treasure-chest of images - but nobody brings them to life as vividly as the legendary travel writer Lawrence Durrell. It was during his youth in Corfu - which his brother Gerald fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals, later filmed as The Durrells In Corfu - that his love affair with the Mediterranean began. Now, in this glorious tour of the Greek islands, he weaves evocative descriptions of these idyllic landscapes with insights into their ancient history, and shares luminous personal memories of his time in the local communities. No traveller to Greece or admirer of Durrell' s magic should miss it. ' Masterly . . . Casts a spell. ' - Jan Morris
' A magician. ' - The Times ' Invades the reader' s every sense . . . Remarkable. ' - Victoria Hislop ' Charming . . . Delightful. ' - Sunday Times ' Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean. ' - Richard Holmes ' Like long letters from a civilized and very funny friend - the prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves. ' - Time
Lawrence Durrell was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. Born in 1912 in India to British colonial parents, he was sent to school in England and later moved to Corfu with his family - a period which his brother Gerald fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals- later filmed as The Durrells in Corfu - and which he himself described in Prospero' s Cell. The first of Durrell' s island books, this was followed by Reflections on a Marine Venus on Rhodes; Bitter Lemons, on Cyprus, which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize; and, later, The Greek Islands. Durrell' s first major novel, The Black Book, was published in 1938 in Paris, where he befriended Henry Miller and Anais Nin - and it was praised by T. S. Eliot, who published his poetry in 1943. A wartime sojourn in Egypt inspired his bestselling masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea) which he completed in his new home in Southern France, where in 1974 he began The Avignon Quintet. When he died in 1990, Durrell was one of the most celebrated writers in British history.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780571362417
Published: 1 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 292g
Pages: 352

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