Mountolive

by Lawrence Durrell Narrated by Nicholas Boulton

Overview

`Mountolive who had already found the open sesame of language ready to hand, suddenly began to feel himself really penetrating a foreign country...' In Mountolive, the third volume in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, the events surrounding the interwoven community of Nessim, Justine, Narouz, Pursewarden and the other major characters are given a very different perspective. The intrigues and complex relationships are seen through the political prism of a world plunging towards war. David Mountolive, once emotionally involved with Nessim's set, now returns to Egypt as the British ambassador...

Editorial Reviews

OCTOBER 2021 - AudioFile

Born in Gibraltar, the sometimes-Shakespearean actor Nicholas Boulton is the perfect narrator for the third book in the cherished Alexandria Quartet. And no, you needn’t have listened to the others; this novel is a universe unto itself. Boulton fully inhabits the often drunk, always stuffy, plainly ridiculous characters who ran the empire on which a British sun refused to set. Without attempting mimicry, he shifts his voice to play the Egyptian beauty in one line, her English lover in the next. His tongue wraps deftly around Durrell’s vast and sometimes-prickly vocabulary. Magnificent prose explodes in the ear, igniting the smallest detail. This witty tragedy will have you chortling happily until it wrings your heart. And then, if you are like this listener, you’ll begin again at the beginning. B.H.C. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2021 Best Audiobook © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

From the Publisher

"This is a work of splendid craft and troubling veracity." - The New York Times

OCTOBER 2021 - AudioFile

Born in Gibraltar, the sometimes-Shakespearean actor Nicholas Boulton is the perfect narrator for the third book in the cherished Alexandria Quartet. And no, you needn’t have listened to the others; this novel is a universe unto itself. Boulton fully inhabits the often drunk, always stuffy, plainly ridiculous characters who ran the empire on which a British sun refused to set. Without attempting mimicry, he shifts his voice to play the Egyptian beauty in one line, her English lover in the next. His tongue wraps deftly around Durrell’s vast and sometimes-prickly vocabulary. Magnificent prose explodes in the ear, igniting the smallest detail. This witty tragedy will have you chortling happily until it wrings your heart. And then, if you are like this listener, you’ll begin again at the beginning. B.H.C. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2021 Best Audiobook © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940173006295
Publisher:	Naxos Audiobooks
Publication date:	05/31/2021
Series:	The Alexandria Quartet
Edition description:	Unabridged

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