Sicilian Carousel Author:Lawrence Durrell A motley band of tourists takes a carousel-like whirl around the rim of Sicily. In homage to his late friend Martine, who had often urged him to explore the island, Lawrence Durrell joins their tour, which is appropriately named the Carousello Siciliano. The result is this sparkling book--a volume to put beside Durrell's previous "islomania" wor... more »ks about Cyprus, Corfu, and Rhodes, for here are not only the madcap adventures of the multinational sightseers bouncing up and down in their little red bus but also Durrell's own explorations of the fabulous, many-layered civilization of surprising Sicily.
"No person, place, or thing can ever quite remain the same for us after we have seen, smelled, tasted, heard, and felt it through the sense of Lawrence Durrell."
--Saturday Review
"Durrell's dazzling prose and perceptive observations make his travelogue a rare, unforgettable experience."
--Publishers Weekly
"Sicilian Carousel is the personal perception of a place and a people by an artist who has the selectivity to see and the style to describe what he sees as well as any prosodist currently writing."