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karna's review
2.0
I'm quite disappointed by this biography.
The beginning, with Lawrence Durrell's youth in India, then in England and Corfu was interesting. The chapters about the writting of The Alexandria Quartet are also good.
But the others parts are tedious and quite repetitive. I don't think anyone is interested by a so close account of Durrel's love and sex life.
And do I care about the sexual life of his friend Henry Miller? No.
The writer, Gordon Bowker, seems to have written this book just in order to blackened Lawrence Durrell 's reputation, whick is quite weird.
I'll try to read another biography of Lawrence Durrell.
The beginning, with Lawrence Durrell's youth in India, then in England and Corfu was interesting. The chapters about the writting of The Alexandria Quartet are also good.
But the others parts are tedious and quite repetitive. I don't think anyone is interested by a so close account of Durrel's love and sex life.
And do I care about the sexual life of his friend Henry Miller? No.
The writer, Gordon Bowker, seems to have written this book just in order to blackened Lawrence Durrell 's reputation, whick is quite weird.
I'll try to read another biography of Lawrence Durrell.
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