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Mountolive (The Alexandria Quartet, Book Three)

July 24, 2011 by Drew

The Short Version: The story of David Mountolive, British diplomat – tracing from his younger days, when he first met Nessim and Narouz Hosnani, through the story recounted previously in Justine and Balthazar.  The story is, however, first and foremost political this time ’round – the hints of political turmoil that only occasionally surfaced in those first two books come to the fore in this novel.  Characters like Darley, Balthazar, even Clea and Justine, are relegated to secondary while the stories of Pursewarden, Mountolive, […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: 6, Fiction, Lawrence Durrell, Literature, Mountolive, Philosophy, Psychology, The Alexandria Quartet

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