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This richly sensuous account of Durrell's years in the British civil service takes place after the end of World War II and just before the island of Rhodes is handed back to Greece. His evocative descriptions range from the scent of citrus groves and flowers of every form and color to the rhythm of the sea (alternately savage and soothing) and the play of light over the island as the sun moves across the sky. He intermingles these pleasant accounts with the grim reality of having to rebuild a nation and an island after Nazi cruelty has left it a shambles. "Penetrating description, intense imagery, high and persistent color...it is a presentation which sparkles with an intense brilliance and fire." -- Christian Science Monitor
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Jerry Janysek
reviewed Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes on September 27, 2013
Reflections on a Marine Venus
It is five star quality, an evocation of a past. The opening pages must be some of the best opening pages ever written.
The army boat, off course because of a running storm; Gideon and his little dog Homer; the landing, not in Cyprus or Beirut confidently prophesised by Gideon, but in Rhodes where they are scheduled to arrive. Later, Hoyle; met over the trunks and suitcases that belong to him; objects cursed for being in the way and by extension Hoyle is seen as an object in the way. The reality is very different.
Four stars because of one or two racist remarks and sexist inferences that one can't ignore. One would like to gloss by them but justice dictates not.
Don't be put off though, visit the world before tourism over ran it. Durrell's writing even has glow worms of the future in beams of prose.
'The Aegean is still waiting for its painter.' Well is it?
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