Malibu

Autograph postcard signed by Lawrence Durrell addressed to Jani Brun, written in black felt-tip pen, on the verso of a photograph of a Malibu beach.
"Buttons hola ! L'amérique est plein de fric, de frustrées et d'ennui. Pourtant on est très bien traités et je joue un peu le rôle de Scott Fitzgerald à Malibu." ["Buttons hello! America is full of money, frustrated women and boredom. Yet we are very well treated and I play a bit the role of Scott Fitzgerald in Malibu."].
After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, the travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence...