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“Lowry’s masterpiece” about a fateful Day of the Dead in a small Mexican town and one man’s struggle against the forces threatening to destroy him (Los Angeles Times)In what the New York Times calls “one of the towering novels of [the twentieth] century,” former British consul Geoffrey Firmin lives alone with his demons in the shadow of two active volcanoes in South Central Mexico. Gripped by alcoholism, Geoffrey makes one last effort to salvage his crumbling life on the day that his ex-wife, Yvonne, arrives in town. It’s the Day of the Dead, 1938. The couple wants to revive their marriage and undo the wrongs of their past, but they soon realize that they’ve stumbled into the wrong place and time, where not only Geoffrey and Yvonne, but the world itself is on the edge of Armageddon. "Through the three central characters, there is the Joycean outpour of consciousness, a diarrhoeic total recall, in the search for the cause of their rejection of life, in their rationalization of their self-portraits, in their knowledge of their griefs, despairs, bewilderment. Their casual, veiled conversations, wandering soul searchings, are highlighted against the Mexican setting, and the effect, som
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- Author
- Malcolm Lowry
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061120152
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (738 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Under the Volcano (Picador Books) (1990)
- Under the Volcano (1946)
- Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) (2000)
- Under the Volcano (Perennial Classic.) (2000)
- Under the Volcano (Perennial Classic.) (1965)
- Bajo el volcan (Biblioteca Era) (1997)
- Under the Volcano: A Novel (2000)
- Under the Volcano (1965)
- Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.) (1963)
- Under the Volcano (1971)
- Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) (1947)
- Under the Volcano (1947)
- Under vulkanen (1996)
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