Volume 22, Number 3 · March 6, 1975

Play It Again, Sam

By Michael Wood
Monsieur
by Lawrence Durrell

Viking, 309 pp., $8.95

The wind tugs at the olive-trees behind the house, and the vast Adriatic sky shifts from pale pink to deep purple. The sea stirs the driftwood on the small beach. I have come here to think things through, to try for one last time to put our several, broken lives in order. The child is inside, leafing through a tattered copy of Justine….



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