Nunquam Author:Lawrence Durrell The brilliant scientist, Felix Charlock, is summoned from a madhouse by a supremely powerful international corporation. His assignment - to help create an exact, functioning duplicate of Iolanthe, the famous movie star, now dead, with whom Julian Merlin, chief of the firm, is deeply obsessed. It is a project born of an arrogance of power, an unb... more »ridled scientific compulsion and one man's agonizing impotence, but it is an incredible challenge - to recreate a woman, breathing, thinking, remembering...loving.
Nunquam carries forward the theme which began with Tunc, the destruction of the individual by the crushing forces of modern technology. It is durrell's most contemporary novel - bawdy, fantastic, satiric - compelling science fiction with the shock of impending fact.« less