The Alexandria Quartet - Book 4
Clea
“Clea rounds out the tetralogy with grace, beauty, and stunning impact…This rich, exciting fare is Durrell’s finest writing style, a manner of writing few living authors can equal…A magnificent achievement.”
Detroit News
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A New York Times bestseller
An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year
The magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the postwar era
Few books were as eagerly awaited in 1960 as Clea, the sensuous and electrically suspenseful novel that resolves the enigmas of the Alexandria Quartet.
After some years and one world war and after his bizarre liaisons with Melissa and Justine, the Irish émigré Darley becomes enmeshed with the bisexual artist Clea. That affair not only changes the lovers but transforms the dead as well, revealing new layers of duplicity and desire, perversity and pathos in Lawrence Durrell’s masterly construction.
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