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Clea

The Alexandria Quartet, Book 4

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"I knew that Clea would share everything with me, withholding nothing - not even the look of complicity which women reserve only for their mirrors."

In Clea, the concluding part of the Alexandria Quartet, Darley returns to Alexandria now caught by war-fever. The conflagration has its effect on his circle - on Nessim and Justine, Balthazar and Clea, Mountolive and Pombal - and a clarity of purpose emerges as the story moves toward its cadence.

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©1960 Lawrence Durrell (P)2023 Naxos AudioBooks UK Ltd. Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction War
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I have really enjoyed all four books in the Alexandria quarter and have previously said how wonderfully evocative of a sensuous sumptuous lost world Durrell’s writing is. The narrator is really excellent. He gives Darley a slight Irish brogue (perhaps the the actor’s real voice but it is perfect) and the other characters all have ‘voices’ which aid the listening without being at all ‘hammy.’
I loved all four novels but I think Clea stands out.

Brilliantly written conclusion to the quartet and a subtle sensitive performance by the voice actor - superb

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I have always found The Alexandria Quartet captivating, even though I am not at all the literary type, and I must admit that I sometimes skip quickly over come of the long ramblings about Art. But the kaleidoscopic quality of the novel is fascinating - the way things known keep showing up in new configurations and turning out to be something completely different then one thought them to be. I am so glad that to see the four parts in an unabridged version - and thank you for putting in the last chapter of Clea and the workpoints, which give this feeling of things continuing to form themselves in new patterns. The kaleidoscope keeps turning.
And the narrator - OK, he is American, but not too blatantly so, In fact I think he does it really well - and I rejoice in the fact that he is able to pronounce the French 'rue' correctly, a thing then no English narrator seems able to do.

Captivating

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