Under the Volcano
$23.17
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2000
Summary
Under the Volcano: A Descent into Darkness
It is the Day of the Dead. The fiesta is in full swing. In the shadow of Popocatepeti, ragged children beg for coins to buy skulls made of chocolate…and ugly pariah dogs roam the streets.
Geoffrey Firmin, HM ex-consul, is drowning himself in liquor and Mescal, while his ex-wife and half-brother look on, powerless to help him. As the day wears on, it becomes apparent that Geoffrey must die. It is his only escape from a world he canno…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141182254 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141182253 |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Author: | Malcolm Lowry, Michael Schmidt |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2000 |
| Weight: | 281g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
”[Lowry’s] masterpiece … has a claim to being regarded as one of the ten most consequential works of fiction produced in this century…. It reflects the special genius of Lowry, a writer with a poet’s command of the language and a novelist’s capacity to translate autobiographical details into a universal statement”.
– Los Angeles Times
About The Author
Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry (1909 - 1957) was raised in England and died there but lived much of his troubled life semi-nomadically - in New York, Mexico and British Columbia.
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