num_pages: 288
description: The magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the postwar era.Few books have been awaited as eagerly as Clea, the sensuous and electrically suspenseful novel that resolves the enigmas of the Alexandria Quartet. Some years and one world war was after his bizarre liaisons with Melissa and Justine, the Irish émigré Darley becomes enmeshed with the bisexual artist Clea. That affair not only changes the lovers, it transforms the dead as well, revealing new layers of duplicity and desire, perversity and pathos in Lawrence Durrell's masterly construction.
language: English
title: Clea
titlecomplete: Clea (The Alexandria Quartet, #4)
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Africa, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Egypt, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 2936
places: Alexandria
series: Alexandria Quartet
publisher: Penguin Books