{"product_id":"sebastian-or-ruling-passions-by-lawrence-durrell","title":"'Sebastian; or, Ruling Passions' by Lawrence Durrell","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"351\" data-end=\"807\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"351\" data-end=\"383\"\u003eSebastian; or, Ruling Passions\u003c\/em\u003e is the fourth volume in Lawrence Durrell’s \u003cem data-start=\"427\" data-end=\"444\"\u003eAvignon Quintet\u003c\/em\u003e, moving between postwar Europe, Egypt, religious secrecy, psychoanalysis, erotic memory, and the layered games of fiction itself.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"351\" data-end=\"807\"\u003eSebastian Affad is drawn back into the orbit of a Gnostic sect after a fatal message and a doctrinal mix-up, while Constance and the wider Durrellian universe continue to tangle love, metaphysics, history, and feverish conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"809\" data-end=\"1187\"\u003eThis is late Durrell in full silk-and-incense mode: elliptical, sensual, clever, occasionally absurd, and very much not interested in behaving like a tidy realist novel. Best for readers already curious about Durrell, twentieth-century literary excess, modernist afterlives, and books where theology and desire keep slipping into the same room and pretending it was an accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1213\" data-end=\"1394\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK edition, Faber hardback, 1983. Ex-library copy with stamps, labels, and borrowing sheet. Very good reading copy in dust jacket, with light jacket wear and mild page toning.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985604374611,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-31T172843.120.png?v=1780212536","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/sebastian-or-ruling-passions-by-lawrence-durrell","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}