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1. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2007/12/17Day of the Dead - The New Yorker

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   Dec 10, 2007 · An autopsy revealed that Lowry, an alcoholic, had been drunk, and the doctor who examined the body found that he had swallowed a large number of barbiturates and had inhaled some half-digested...

2. thequietus.com › opinion-and-essays › anniversaryMalcolm Lowry’s Under The Volcano - The Quietus

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   Jun 27, 2017 · Under The Volcano, Malcolm Lowry’s bible for drunks, pivots on the Day Of The Dead festival in Quauhnahuac, Mexico in 1938. It was during that same year that the pseudonymous Bill W started writing the "Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio.

3. www.britannica.com › topic › Under-the-VolcanoUnder the Volcano | Mexican Revolution, alcoholism, tragedy

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   Under the Volcano, masterwork of Malcolm Lowry, published in 1947 and reissued in 1962. Set in Mexico in the late 1930s, Under the Volcano is the story of the last desperate day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a dispirited alcoholic and former British consul. His estranged wife, Yvonne, attempts to.

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4. www.supersummary.com › under-the-volcanoUnder the Volcano Summary | SuperSummary

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   Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry is a modernist novel published in 1947. Set in Quauhnahuac, Mexico, in 1938, it follows the Consul, a former British diplomat with an alcohol addiction, on the day of his death.

5. www.theguardian.com › books › 2011Under the Volcano: a modernist masterpiece | Malcolm Lowry ...

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   Nov 2, 2011 · Under the Volcano: a modernist masterpiece. T oday is All Souls' Day, the culmination of Mexico's Day of the Dead and the date on which, in 1938, the events of Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano ...

6. theconversation.com › the-enduring-power-andThe enduring power and tragedy of Malcolm Lowry’s Under the ...

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   Jul 20, 2017 · Under the Volcano by the British novelist and poet Malcolm Lowry is considered one of the most influential novels of the 20th century. But given the wrangling that took place during the book’s ...

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   What is new about Malcolm Lowry?

   • A small group of dedicated scholars from North America is developing new perspectives on Lowry including critical editions of his lost novels Swinging the Maelstrom, In Ballast to the White Sea and an earlier version of his masterpiece Under the Volcano, together with a brand new set of essays, Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space.

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   How old was Malcolm Lowry when he died?

   • After Lowry published “Under the Volcano,” in 1947, he was hailed as a successor to Joyce. His wife, Margerie, edited the book. DAVID HUGHES Correction appended. Malcolm Lowry died in his cottage in the village of Ripe, in Sussex, late at night on June 26, 1957, or early the next morning. He was forty-seven years old.

   Day of the Dead | The New Yorker

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   Why is a conference on Malcolm Lowry being held in Liverpool?

   • A conference on Malcolm Lowry is being held in his birthplace of Liverpool to commemorate this anniversary and to explore the legacy that Under the Volcano has left. The novel, set in Mexico on the Day of the Dead in 1938, details the final 24 hours in the life of a doomed British consul named Geoffrey Firmin.

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8. www.theguardian.com › books › booksblogUnder the Volcano: the alchemy of alcohol | Malcolm Lowry ...

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   Sep 18, 2013 · Reading group Malcolm Lowry. This article is more than 10 years old. Under the Volcano: the alchemy of alcohol. Has there been a more alcoholic book than Malcolm Lowry's tortured...