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Balthazar

by Lawrence Durrell

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The second instalment of the Alexandria Quartet, begins with the narrator from Justine living on a Greek island with the illegitimate daughter of his former lover, Melissa. The reader soon learns that many of the details from the first novel are unreliable and a very different version of events is gradually untangled.

FictionIllegal arms transfers in fictionFriendship in fictionMarried women in fictionFriendshipPsychiatristsMarried womenIllegal arms transfersPRO Thomas, Jay (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)CHR 1960NOVELAPRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)