Clea Author:Lawrence Durrell "Explores yet more fully the bonds of love and death that unite the characters of Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive...not only a remarkably fine novel, but a key to the many puzzling elements in the exotic and puzzling world of Alexandria..." - The Chicago Tribune — "The book is all flesh and body...this carnality distinquishes it. Laurence Ster... more »ne was naughty, Rabelais bawdy, Henry Miller plain sexy, but this has a subtle silky Scheherazade quality..." - The Associated Press
"To turn the last page of Clea is to close the door on a world so vivid, so sensuous and so exciting in all its aspects that the reader, reduced to an ordinary chair in a an ordinary room, must fight a sense of bereavement." - Washington Post« less