Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano: Malcolm Lowry (Penguin Modern Classics) [2000] paperback GENDE Tom Shakespeare

Tom Shakespeare

A thriller like you've never read one before

It asks where the feeling comes from

that the three friends go back to where things fell apart and finally bury the hatchet

Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano: Malcolm Lowry (Penguin Modern Classics) [2000] paperback GENDE Tom ShakespeareOne of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics. It is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate, ugly pariah dogs roam the streets and Geoffrey Firmin ex consul, ex husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man is living out