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Larry

A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–1945

Michael Haag

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English
Profile
09 September 2025
Lawrence Durrell was unquestionably one of the most distinctive, original and compelling literary figures of his age. From his childhood in India and Burma to his bohemian youth in London and Paris, from his madcap scheme to move his family to Corfu to the formative war years spent in Alexandria - this masterful and richly detailed biography is essential reading to understand the man and the writer.

In Larry, Michael Haag, the world's foremost expert on the Durrells, brought together his unrivalled knowledge and first-hand meetings with the Durrell family and associates to offer the definitive account of the young Lawrence and the real-life settings and stories that inspired his acknowledged masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet.
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Imprint:   Profile
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Height: 240mm,  Width: 164mm,  Spine: 46mm
Weight:   720g
ISBN:   9781788169790
ISBN 10:   1788169794
Pages:   496
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Michael Haag was a writer, historian and biographer. He wrote widely on the Egyptian, Classical and Medieval worlds; and on the Mediterranean and the Middle East. He was regarded as the world's foremost Durrells scholar. His books for Profile include The Durrells of Corfu and the bestselling Templars series.

Reviews for Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–1945

Praise for Michael Haag: 'Haag is a romantic pluralist, with an instinctive taste for the esoteric, the independent and the defeated; and a corresponding distrust of victors and orthodoxies * TLS * Family stories are worth telling, and this one is fascinatingly put together by Michael Haag... An absolutely riveting read * Daily Mail * Haag's Alexandria goes further than any other book I know to animate the world these people lived and loved * Sunday Times * Ending this haunting book, some readers may want to re-read it at once * Guardian *


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