Volume 6, Number 3 · March 3, 1966
Ultra Writer
By Denis Donoghue
Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry
edited by Harvey Breit, edited by Margerie Bonner Lowry
Lippincott, 459 pp., $10.00
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry, Reissued with an Introduction by Stephen Spender
Lippincott, 377 pp., $5.95
The bare facts are that Malcolm Lowry was born in England in 1909 and died there in 1957. Most of his adult life was spent in Mexico and British Columbia. We know little of those years, except that they were often miserable. Even now, an alcoholic haze surrounds his name. But a book emerged from that wretched time: Under the Volcano.
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