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About this book
Malcolm Lowry was the troubled author of
Under the Volcano (1947), a brilliant novel about the last day of an alcoholic former British consul on the Mexican Day of the Dead, the manuscript of which Lowry rescued from the flames when his fisherman's shack burned down in 1944. Lowry's other books were not always so lucky: his first novel,
Ultramarine (1930), was stolen after four years' composition and resurrected from a carbon copy; another manuscript,
In Ballast to the White Sea, was destroyed in the 1944 fire. An early draft of
In Ballast was discovered this century and published in 2014. Lowry's life, like his work, was often lost to chaos; Gordon Bowker's 1994 biography is a masterful account of a life spent adrift.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Notes
- Preface
- I: Roots
- II: Unwillingly to School (1914–1923)
- III: At The Leys (1923–1926)
- IV: Love and the Ocean Wave (1926–1927)
- V: Sailing East: Sailing West (1927–1929)
- VI: Up at the Varsity (1929–1930)
- VII: Purple Passages (1930–1932)
- VIII: An Ill-starred Romance (1932–1933)
- IX: Into Exile (1933–1934)
- X: In Pursuit of the White Whale (1934–1936)
- XI: Mexico: Under the Volcano (1936–1937)
- XII: ‘Something New About Hellfire’ (1937–1938)
- XIII: An American Divorce, a Hollywood Love, Canadian Exile (1938–1939)
- XIV: Cut Off by War (1939–1940)
- XV: Eridanus: Lowry’s Waterside Paradise (1941–1944)
- XVI: A Masterpiece Completed (1945)
- XVII: More Trouble Under the Volcano (1945–1946)
- XVIII: Journey to the Magic Island (1946–1947)
- XIX: ‘Success … Like Some Horrible Disaster’ (1947)
- XX: ‘Through the Panama’ to Europe (1947–1949)
- XXI: Hallucinations and Shadows (1949–1950)
- XXII: The Voyage that Never Ends (1951–1952)
- XXIII: The Life of Fiction (1952–1953)
- XXIV: Evicted from the Paradise Garden (1954)
- XXV: European Disasters (1954–1956)
- XXVI: Going Down Fighting (1956–1957)
- Postface
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright