TUNC by Lawrence Durrell. 359 pages Dutton. $6.95.
Balthazar, second novel of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, begins portentously with these lines from De Sade's Justine: "The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions."
In Tune, Durrell's first novel since the Quartet ended with Clea in 1960, a neurotic, solid-gold heiress with the heart of a prostitute streaks naked into her empty ballroom and shatters its mirrored walls with a...