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| View across the Eastern Harbour by Michael Haag. |
Irish novelist and Man Booker prize winner John Banville counts the Alexandria Quartet among the best books of the twentieth century.
'As fiction, these four novels — Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea — are post-Romantic piffle, but as a celebration of a city and a distillation of the "spirit of place" they are without peer, with some of the richest, most beautiful prose written in the 20th century.'
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