Volume 55, Number 6 · April 17, 2008
The Passionate Egoist
By Michael Wood
The Voyage That Never Ends: Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters
by Malcolm Lowry, edited by Michael Hofmann
New York Review Books, 518 pp., $27.95
The biographer Douglas Day recounts an episode in the later life of Malcolm Lowry. The novelist visits a neighbor on the western coast of Canada, a carpenter. The man has several children, one of whom is severely retarded. Lowry stares at the child for a while and finally says to the father, 'What kind of man are you if this is the sort of kid you produce?' The carpenter hits Lowry in the face and throws him out.
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