Books
Editor’s Note: Book Review received half a dozen letters taking issue with Patricia Storace’s recent review of Ian MacNiven’s biography of Lawrence Durrell.
July 12, 1998
Re: Your double review of “The Dream of Heroes” and “Diary of the War of the Pig” (Book Review, Dec. 11).
Dec. 25, 1988
Entertainment & Arts
Sabri Tahir, 76, roguish Turkish Cypriot who was immortalized in the Lawrence Durrell book “Bitter Lemons.”
May 11, 2000
LAWRENCE DURRELL. By Ian MacNiven (Faber and Faber: 802 pp., $36.95)
June 21, 1998
Lawrence Durrell, the India-born British novelist best known for his “Alexandria Quartet,” has died at his home in Southern France.
Nov. 9, 1990
Lawrence Durrell, the British novelist whose works evoked the exotic imagery of the Mediterranean, has died at his home in southern France, his family said today.
Nov. 8, 1990
“Quinx,” as its title implies, is the fifth and final novel in a sequence that Lawrence Durrell has been building for the last 10 years, under the title “The Avignon Quintet.”
Oct. 27, 1985
CAESAR’S VAST GHOST by Lawrence Durrell (Arcade Publishing/Little, Brown: $35; 204 pp.) .
Jan. 13, 1991
Television
The visual splendor of tonight’s new 10-part series “My Family and Other Animals,” airing on the Arts & Entertainment cable network at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m., is breathtaking.
April 14, 1988
Travel & Experiences
SICILIAN CAROUSEL; By Lawrence Durrell; (Marlowe and Co.: 224 pp., $12.95) : SOMETIMES THE SOUL: Two Novellas of Sicily; By Gioia Timpanelli; (W. W. Norton: 184 pp., $23) : MIDNIGHT IN SICILY; By Peter Robb; (Faber and Faber: 326 pp., $23.25)
May 30, 1999