Here's how Gerry described Spiro:" short, barrel-bodied with hamlike fists and a great leathery scowling face surmounted by a jaunty tilted peaked cap. He opened the door of his car ( an anc- ient Dodge ) surged out onto the pavement and waddled across to us." He later mentions Spiro "hitching his trousers over his belly." He probably looked more like the photo on the left than the one on the right.
In the PBS series, The Durrells in Corfu, oldest son, Larry is the writer, and, in real life, he was a prolific author publishing novels, travel books, collections of poetry, and editing and translating. But it's youngest son, Gerry, who gave us the series. I'm only in page 144 but, so far, the series is doing a good job of following the book though with some changes as to when different things happened. The one exception I've found is about Spiro.
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