Under the Volcano
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Under the Volcano
By (Author) Malcolm Lowry
Introduction by Michael Schmidt
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
2nd October 2000
3rd February 2000
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Classic fiction: general and literary
823.912
Physical Properties
Paperback
400
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 18mm
283g
Description
It is the Day of the Dead. The fiesta in full swing. In the shadow of Popocatepeti ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate...and the 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 cannot understand. UNDER THE VOLCANO is one of the century's great undisputed masterpieces.
Reviews
"[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
Author Bio
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.
