Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry 1988, Audio Cassette: items on eBay.com

Description: The autobiographical novel of a man trapped by his own sense of acedia--the compulsive need to alienate himself from those who love him and want to help him redeem himself. British consul Geoffrey Firmin is an alcoholic, stationed in Mex...

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Synopsis
The autobiographical novel of a man trapped by his own sense of acedia--the compulsive need to alienate himself from those who love him and want to help him redeem himself. British consul Geoffrey Firmin is an alcoholic, stationed in Mexico during the Spanish Civil War, who consistently rejects the entreaties of his wife and friends to give up the alcohol that is killing him.

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Publication Date:	1988-03-01
Series:	7218

Size
Height:	7.3 in
Width:	4.5 in
Thickness:	0.8 in
Weight:	5.6 oz

Industry Reviews
"If you have reduced the whole world to your own sensations, you can't afford to slight even one of them. This is why 'Under the Volcano', as remarkable as it is, gives the impression of being overwritten. After a few chapters we long for something casual, even a mistake, anything to relieve the pressure of deliberate significance. In the event, the only relief from the demand of one sensation is the arrival of another. ...[O]nly the inescapable density of the writing keeps us going, , , , [Lowry] seized upon Baudelaire's remark that life is a forest of symbols. It had to be; otherwise it was nothing. If a tree was just a tree, how dreadful; Lowry had to rescue it from its finitude."
New York Review of Books - Denis Donoghue (03/03/1966)

"Poet Stephen Spender calls it 'the most interesting novel I have read since Lawrence and Joyce.' Critic Alfred Kazin says it 'belongs with the most original and creative novels of our time.' As a study of the anguished conditions of the human soul, UNDER THE VOLCANO never misses a trick."
(02/24/1947)

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