Author of the Year: 1990.
The most significant author who died in this year.
Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990).
#Booksky #AuthoroftheYear #Alexandriaquartet #bookishreader #bookworms #book #booklovers
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Been eyeing my Durrell while reading Outline- #AlexandriaQuartet . . .
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A group of happy Greeks on the beach 1930s. A sepia photograph
Greeks on the beach at Alexandria, 1930s. From Michael Haag’s blog michaelhaag.blogspot.com/2013/08/lawr... #alexandriaquartet
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An elegant woman standing in front of a large mirror, photographed in the 1940s or 1950s. In the novel, Justine is first seen by one of the characters in a mirror
#alexandriaquartet Lawrence Durrell’s wife Eve, perhaps the model for the character Justine in his novels. Am now reading Clea, the last novel of the quartet. I do not want this story to end. Photo source: www.theguardian.com/books/galler...
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A postcard I have of Alexandria. Early 20th century I think? There is no date on the back.
A view of Alexandria. #nowreading Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet (just started book three) and so I have been tracking down old photos and postcards of the pre-revolutionary city #egypt #alexandriaquartet
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An old postcard of Alexandria, Egypt
A postcard of Sherif Pasha Street (now Salah Salem) in Alexandria, Egypt, early 20th century.
Source: levantineheritage.com/alexandria.htm
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Here's another chapter from one of the few books published this century worth reading (or writing):
gerardjones.substack.com/p/ginny-good...
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En esta extraña edición leí por primera vez El cuarteto de Alejandría.
Mi abuela Yolanda, gran lectora, me dijo (tenía yo cerca de 14 años): “¿Te parecen muy complejos estos personajes? Lo son, vida mía, pero no se acercan siquiera a la complejidad real de la gente. Prepárate.”
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