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Under The Volcano
One of the twentieth centurys great undisputed masterpieces Malcolm Lowrys Under the Volcano" includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in "Penguin Modern Classics". It is the fiesta Day of the Dead in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate ugly pariah dogs roam the streets and Geoffrey Firmin - ex-consul ex-husband an alcoholic and a ruined man - is living out the last day of his life. Drowning himself in mescal while his former wife and half-brother look on powerless to help him the consul has become an enduring tragic figure. As the day wears on it becomes apparent that Geoffrey must die. It is his only escape from a world he cannot understand. His story the image of one mans agonised
journey towards Calvary became a prophetic book for a whole generation. Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) was born and died in England. Between school and studying English at St Catherines College Cambridge he spent five months at sea as a deckhand an experience which gave him the material for his first novel "Ultramarine" (1933). After marrying in Paris he moved to New York where he completed "In Ballast to the White" (1936). "Under The Volcano" was begun in Hollywood coloured by a short stay in the Mexico that it describes and eventually finished in Dollarton British Columbia. If you enjoyed "Under the Volcano" you might like F. Scott Fitzgeralds "The Beautiful and the Damned" also available in "Penguin Classics". "A Faustian
masterpiece". (Anthony Burgess)."
journey towards Calvary became a prophetic book for a whole generation. Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) was born and died in England. Between school and studying English at St Catherines College Cambridge he spent five months at sea as a deckhand an experience which gave him the material for his first novel "Ultramarine" (1933). After marrying in Paris he moved to New York where he completed "In Ballast to the White" (1936). "Under The Volcano" was begun in Hollywood coloured by a short stay in the Mexico that it describes and eventually finished in Dollarton British Columbia. If you enjoyed "Under the Volcano" you might like F. Scott Fitzgeralds "The Beautiful and the Damned" also available in "Penguin Classics". "A Faustian
masterpiece". (Anthony Burgess)."
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