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Sep 2021
51m 4s

Lawrence Durrell, Justine

Michael Lavers
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Claire and I celebrate this under-read hidden gem, the first novel in Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet." We wander through topics like love, sex, memory, time, prose style, modernism, and much more. 

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