Justine
Durrell, Lawrence2020
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Walking slowly home through the dark avenue of trees, tasting the brackish harbour wind, I remembered Justine saying harshly as she lay in bed: 'We use each other like axes to cut down the ones we really love'. Alexandria: the great winepress of love. Trams, palm trees, and watermelon stalls lie honey-bathed in sunlight; in darkened bedrooms, sweaty lovers unfurl. But in a world trembling on the brink of war, passion and death are inextricable. When a penniless Anglo-Irish schoolteacher begins an affair with Justine - a married Egyptian lady of unparalleled glamour - their partners, Melissa and Nessim, are sucked into a whirlpool of jealousy and violence.
Main title:
Justine / Lawrence Durrell ; introduction by André Aciman.
Author:
Durrell, Lawrence, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2020.
Collation:
208 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780571356065 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.912AF
LC class:
PR6007.U76
Language:
English
BRN:
2678905
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