{"product_id":"tunc-by-lawrence-durrell","title":"'Tunc' by Lawrence Durrell","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"168\" data-end=\"550\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"168\" data-end=\"174\"\u003eTunc\u003c\/em\u003e marks Lawrence Durrell’s turn from the lush eroticism of \u003cem data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"256\"\u003eThe Alexandria Quartet\u003c\/em\u003e toward something colder and more speculative, and honestly, more 'grubby' eroticism.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"168\" data-end=\"550\"\u003eSet in a technologically ascendant Europe, it follows a man drawn into a shadowy corporate-religious nexus concerned with cybernetics, mysticism, and power. The novel sits at the uneasy meeting point of late modernism and early techno-paranoia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"552\" data-end=\"956\"\u003eDurrell’s prose remains excessive, but here it presses against systems—capital, bureaucracy, spiritual hunger in an engineered world. Published in 1968, it anticipates later anxieties about technocracy and corporate transcendence without abandoning Durrell’s taste for metaphysical intrigue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"552\" data-end=\"956\"\u003eIt is less beloved than the Quartet, but quite curious: a bridge between literary modernism and speculative unease.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44066532261971,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-02-19T164840.772.png?v=1771480131","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/tunc-by-lawrence-durrell","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}