She could be filled with hot water in the winter. When he was very old he had a model of the perfect woman built in rubber-life-size. But there are moments that provide great insight into human relationships and vignettes that often seem too vivid to not be real, such as this story of a rich old man who seems to have invented the first blow-up doll: He engages in terrible similes, meaningless statements like “she talked like a man and I talked to her like a man” and frequent anthropomorphism, such as his use of impregnate to describe anything but animal fertilization.ĭurrell is the Jack Nicholson of writers, the arrogant narrative voice that everyone loves to hate. A critical and commercial success, the first three books present three perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during the Second World War. The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 19.
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