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  Balthazar (Alexandria Quartet) (Paperback) By (author) Lawrence Durrell

  

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  Short Description for BalthazarThe dazzling second volume of "The Alexandria Quartet" - a deeply disturbing work of gorgeous surfaces and endless deceptions.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 27 February 1992
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780140153217 ISBN 10: 0140153217
  • Sales rank: 392,424

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Full description for Balthazar

• The dazzling second volume of "The Alexandria Quartet" - and enthralling and deeply disturbing work of gorgeous surfaces and endless deceptions.In Alexandria in the years before the Second World War, an exiled Irish school teacher seeks to unravel his sexual obsession with two women: the tubercular cafe 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.