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Malcolm Lowry

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Malcolm Lowry


Born
in Wallasey, Merseyside, England, The United Kingdom
July 28, 1909

Died
June 26, 1957

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Malcolm Lowry was a British novelist and poet whose masterpiece Under the Volcano is widely hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Born near Liverpool, England, Lowry grew up in a prominent, wealthy family and chafed under the expectations placed upon him by parents and boarding school. He wrote passionately on the themes of exile and despair, and his own wanderlust and erratic lifestyle made him an icon to later generations of writers.

Lowry died in a rented cottage in the village of Ripe, Sussex, where he was living with wife Margerie after having returned to England in the summer of 1955, ill and impoverished. The coroner's verdict was death by misadventure, and the causes of death given as inhalation of stomach c
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Under the Volcano

3.76 avg rating — 26,726 ratings — published 1947 — 333 editions
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Lunar Caustic

3.58 avg rating — 433 ratings — published 1963 — 24 editions
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Ultramarine

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Dark As the Grave Wherein M...

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Hear Us O Lord from Heaven ...

3.91 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1961 — 40 editions
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Selected Poems of Malcolm L...

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October Ferry to Gabriola

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In Ballast to the White Sea

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“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?”
Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

“the fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light”
Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola

“Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to go always towards the summer, towards those burning seas of light; to sit at night in the forecastle lost in an unfamiliar dream, when the spirit becomes filled with stars, instead of wounds, and good and compassionate and tender. To sail into an unknown spring, or receive one's baptism on storm's promontory, where the solitary albatross heels over in the gale, and at last come to land. To know the earth under one's foot and go, in wild delight, ways where there is water.”
Malcolm Lowry, Ultramarine

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