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The Black Book (Paperback, Main)
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'The most exhilarating surge of language, style and sordid English
manners [in] literature.' DBC Pierre 'A wild, passionate,
brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza ... Richly obscene,
energetically morbid, very often very funny ... Above all,
stylistically and verbally inventive.' Observer Death Gregory has
disappeared, abandoning his diaries in a seedy London hotel.
Discovered by Lawrence Lucifer, they depict a clique of
intellectuals living a life of squalid debauchery: struggling
writers and artists consumed by loves, lusts, and a quest for
innovation. But as they satisfy violent appetites of the flesh -
and mind - their descent into darkness accelerates ... Written when
he was only 24, Lawrence Durrell described his controversial third
novel as 'a two-fisted attack on literature by an angry young man
of the thirties' in which he 'first heard the sound of my own
voice.' First published in Paris in 1938, it was banned in Britain
for nearly four decades due to its 'obscenity' (influenced by
Durrell's friend Henry Miller). Vivid, surrealist, and haunting,
The Black Book peers into the recesses of our souls: and
establishes Durrell as a trailblazing stylist. 'Stygian prose ...
Words like stones, throwing, rockerying, mossing, churning,
sharpening, bloodsucking, melting, and a hard firewater flows and
rolls through them.' Dylan Thomas 'Genuine art ... Lavishly
displays Durrell's gift of language ... Verbal brilliance.' New
York Times 'The first piece of work by a new English writer to give
me any hope for the future of prose fiction.' T.S. Eliot 'Durrell's
first major work ... Its showy brilliance is certainly that of a
born writer ... Savage and obscene.'Guardian 'Brilliantly strange
... It will astonish.' Independent on Sunday
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