{"product_id":"livia-or-buried-alive-by-lawrence-durrell","title":"'Livia; or, Buried Alive' by Lawrence Durrell","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"333\" data-end=\"698\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"333\" data-end=\"358\"\u003eLivia; or, Buried Alive\u003c\/em\u003e is the second volume of Lawrence Durrell’s \u003cem data-start=\"402\" data-end=\"419\"\u003eAvignon Quintet\u003c\/em\u003e, returning to the Provençal and metaphysical terrain opened in \u003cem data-start=\"483\" data-end=\"493\"\u003eMonsieur\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"333\" data-end=\"698\"\u003eHere the story deepens around Livia, Blanford, Constance, and the wider cast of real and imagined figures, as Durrell folds love, youth, memory, war, authorship, and narrative invention into one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"700\" data-end=\"1065\"\u003eThis is Durrell in his ornate, unstable mode: sensuous, self-aware, sunlit and death-haunted, with the novel constantly aware of itself as a made thing. Best for readers of twentieth-century literary fiction, modernist afterlives, European settings, and books where people discuss love as though it were both a private catastrophe and a minor branch of metaphysics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"700\" data-end=\"1065\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition, Faber hardback, 1978. Very good in dust jacket, with light jacket wear, mild toning, and minor edge\/corner wear.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986605961299,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-31T173947.720.png?v=1780213205","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/livia-or-buried-alive-by-lawrence-durrell","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}