The Black Book Author:Lawrence Durrell "a stunning and original book, a novel of rare excitment, with vivid and unrestrained Rabelaisian humor. The setting is a moldering residential hotel in London that shelters a groups of strange, impassioned peple - sensualists, diealists, self-searchers, sex-searchers. IT is the work of an extremely talented and angry young man; an astonishingly... more » imaginative, cruelly perceptive, purposely savage attach on the smugness of the England of the thirties"« less