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The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader
• Lawrence Durrell
• Clint Willis
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 405 PAGES
• COMING IN
Durrell's intoxicating reflections on Greece and the Mediterranean, collected here in one volume, edited by Clint Willis. With chapters on Corfu, Rhodes, Cyprus, Sicily, Delphi and Provence (where he lived for 33 years until his death in 1990) it's drawn from Durrell's four island books: Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, Bitter Lemons and Sicilian Carousel. The book leads off with a 1960 essay, Landscape and Character. With a nicely detailed table of contents but oddly lacking illustrations, maps or an index.
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Naples '44, A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
• Norman Lewis
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2005 •
PAPER
• 187 PAGES
Lewis's diary-turned-memoir of his time as a British intelligence officer in occupied Italy, originally published in 1978. A classic book by one of the 20th century's great travel writers. Naples '44 is funny and moving, and ultimately a meditation on war and the indomitable character of the Italian people.
(ITL603, $14.95) |
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The Songs of the Kings
• Barry Unsworth
LITERATURE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 342 PAGES
Unsworth's sly, subversive novel, set in 1260 B.C. as scheming Odysseus prepares to plunder Troy (and, of course, avenge Helen). The story may be familiar but the mix of classic cadence and contemporary language, ripe humor and pulled-from-the-headlines satire is all Unsworth. The atmosphere of ancient Greece too is a palpable pleasure.
(GRE185, $13.95) |
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