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Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) was a British novelist whose life was a long, tortured rehearsal for the masterpiece that consumed him. Born to a wealthy cotton broker in Cheshire, he ran away to sea at eighteen, studied at Cambridge, and spent years wandering—Mexico, Canada, Europe—writing and rewriting Under the Volcano through poverty, alcoholism, and repeated collapse. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Under the Volcano.
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Start with Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, ranked #57 in the Canon Compass list.
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Lowry's Under the Volcano: the British Consul drinks himself to death on Mexico's Day of the Dead. A hallucinatory modernist masterpiece.