Andrei Marinescu

The Magus

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I will be in Greece this summer for a couple weeks, what are some good reads for my trip? I want something set in Greece

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Though the Greek island that serves as the primary setting is fictional, I highly recommend The Magus. John Fowles’s writing is terrific.

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“"A fireworks exhibition of fantasy, sexual love and moral awareness" need I say more??? This book was recommended to me in 2020 by someone working at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene (thank you, whoever you are!) and I read it in a week, hunched over on the back fire escape of my apartment in Bed-Stuy, with the hum of the generator below. The world was totally surreal, and maybe that's why I fe”

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