Product Description

Durrell's third work, the original angry young novel, was first published by his good friend and long-time correspondent Henry Miller as the first title in the short-lived "Villa Seurat" imprint of the Paris-based Obelisk Press. Unpublishable by the more staid (and censored) presses across the Channel, no work better captures the anguish and death-consciousness of a Europe about to plunge, once again, into cataclysmic war and destruction.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1152121 in Books
• Published on: 1973-04-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Customer Reviews

Durrell's experimental first effort
Tale of the protagonist's journey from childhood in India to adulthood in the UK. Sprinkled with gothically-depicted ex-pat inhabitants of a Bohemian London setting, in a 1930's version of 'Fawlty Towers' as described by a narrator name Lucifer.
Most characters meet an unpleasant demise.
A cynical, jaundiced work, expressing adolescent anger.