The Black Book av Lawrence Durrell

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<p><b>''The most exhilarating surge of language, style and sordid English manners [in] literature.''</b><u><b>DBC Pierre </b></u><br><br><b>''A wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza ... </b><b>Richly obscene, energetically morbid, very often very funny ... Above all, stylistically and verbally inventive.'' <u>Observer</u></b><br><br>Death Gregory has disappeared, abandoning his diaries in a <b>seedy London hotel</b>. Discovered by Lawrence Lucifer, they depict a clique of intellectuals living a life of squalid debauchery: struggling writers and artists consumed by loves, lusts, and a quest for innovation. But as they satisfy violent appetites of the flesh - and mind - their descent into darkness accelerates ... <br><br>Written when he was only 24, <b>Lawrence Durrell </b>described his controversial third novel as ''a two-fisted attack on literature by an angry young man of the thirties'' in which he ''first heard the sound of my own voice.'' First published in