{"product_id":"constance-or-solitary-practices-by-lawrence-durrell","title":"'Constance; or, Solitary Practices' by Lawrence Durrell","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"408\" data-end=\"849\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"408\" data-end=\"443\"\u003eConstance; or, Solitary Practices\u003c\/em\u003e is the central volume of Lawrence Durrell’s \u003cem data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"505\"\u003eAvignon Quintet\u003c\/em\u003e, moving through wartime Europe and North Africa as private lives are caught inside larger historical convulsions.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"408\" data-end=\"849\"\u003eConstance, a psychoanalyst, becomes one of Durrell’s great organising presences here: moving between desire, exile, war, memory, and the unstable forms of knowledge people use when the world has stopped pretending to be coherent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"851\" data-end=\"1270\"\u003eIt’s Durrell at full density: sensuous, cerebral, politically shadowed, and structurally elaborate, with Cairo, Geneva, Avignon, and the war all folding into the novel’s erotic and metaphysical machinery. Best for readers of late modernist fiction, European literary excess, wartime novels that are not remotely plain, and books where every room contains wine, history, and at least one person having a symbolic crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1296\" data-end=\"1462\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition, Faber hardback, 1982. Very good in dust jacket, with light jacket wear, mild edge wear, and some page toning\/spotting. Clean internally from photos.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986341523539,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-31T173601.207.png?v=1780213018","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/constance-or-solitary-practices-by-lawrence-durrell","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}