The Black Book - Softcover

Durrell, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571283942 ISBN 13: 9780571283941

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2012

Synopsis

First published in Paris in 1938, Durrell's third novel is the story, told from the inside, of the lives and loves of a group of struggling writers and artists in a seedly London hotel.. Controversial at the time because of its sexual frankness, the book was finally published in its complete form only through the efforts of Henry Miller.

About this title

Review:

'The first piece of work by a new English writer to give me any hope for the future of prose fiction.' -- T.S. Eliot

'This is a wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza; it is intrinsically and essentially, the book of a young man ... richly obscene, energetically morbid, very often very funny indeed, self-pitying, but, above all, stylistically and verbally inventive as no other young man's novel of the period was even attempting to be.' --Philip Toynbee, Observer

'[Durrell's] prose renders ordinary scenes brilliantly strange ... while [the novel] may no longer shock, it will astonish.' --Independent on Sunday

Book Description:

A group of intellectuals live a life of debauchery in The Black Book, Lawrence Durrell's third novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0571283942
• ISBN 13: 9780571283941
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256