Sebastian
Or, Ruling Passions| By: | Lawrence Durrell |
| Publisher: | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. |
| Print ISBN: | 9781453261484 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781453261484 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 1983 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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With Sebastian , the New York Times –bestselling author "now seems to be four-fifths the way through one of the great novels of our time" ( The Times ). In Durrell's fourth installment of the Avignon Quintet, Constance returns to Europe after the end of World War II. A Freudian analyst, she treats the shell-shocked, the battle-fatigued, and other despairing survivors in Geneva. She also treats the traumatized, autistic son of her former lover, Sebastian—a situation that draws her back into the mysterious cult that the sensitive and charismatic Sebastian led in the deserts of Egypt. In Sebastian, Constance's pursuit of wisdom in the midst of Europe's blackest night is rendered as a gorgeous and heartbreaking quest for truth in a world full of illusion.