{"product_id":"mountolive-9780140153200","title":"Mountolive","description":"The intrigues of \u003ci\u003eJustine \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBalthazar \u003c\/i\u003emultiply and deepen in the third volume of the Alexandria Quartet, giving us a novel of labyrinthine intricacy and mesmerizing beauty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the first two novels of this profoundly innovative masterpiece, Lawrence Durrell explored two sides of a romantic quadrangle involving several inhabitants of prewar Alexandria. Now that geometry is seen from a startling new angle--through the clinical eye of a British diplomat, for whom love is only another form of statecraft. Like its predecessors, \u003ci\u003eMountolive\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the explosive passions of the modern Middle East. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Durrell is almost without peer in conveying atmosphere and mood. Even if his Alexandria never existed on this earth, it is now as real as Hawthorne's Rome, Proust's Paris, Loti's Constantinople. . . . \u003ci\u003eMountolive\u003c\/i\u003e is dazzlingly cohesive, beautifully controlled from beginning to end.\"--\u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A work of splendid craft and troubling veracity.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eMountolive\u003c\/i\u003e has vivid imagery and scenes of ghastly hilarity. . . . Readers will be sharply aware that they are encountering an acute intelligence pursuing a grand design.\"--\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140153200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.73h x 5.06w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2009 pg. 11\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lawrence Durrell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43132780773557,"sku":"9780140153200","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_cd491db5-9b54-47f8-899c-8bd407634a8f.jpg?v=1695134066","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mountolive-9780140153200","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}