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Malcolm Lowry

Born

in Wallasey, Merseyside, England, The United Kingdom

July 28, 1909

Died

June 26, 1957

Website

http://www.openroadmedia.com/malcolm-lowry

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

Influences

Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Christopher Marlowe, Dante, William Fau ...more

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 26,634 ratings · 1,962 reviews · 99 distinct works • Similar authors

	Under the Volcano 3.77 avg rating — 24,102 ratings — published 1947 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lunar Caustic 3.58 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 1963 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ultramarine by Malcolm Lowry, Margerie B. Lowry (Introduction), Margerie Lowry (Introduction) 3.45 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 1933 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark As the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid 3.75 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1968 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place 3.85 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1961 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry (City Lights Pocket Poets Number 17) by Malcolm Lowry, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Preface), Earle Alfred Birney (Editor) 3.66 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1962 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	October Ferry To Gabriola 3.53 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1971 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voyage That Never Ends: Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters by Malcolm Lowry, Michael Hofmann (Editor) 4.03 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Ballast to the White Sea by Malcolm Lowry, Patrick A. McCarthy (Editor), Vik Doyen (Foreword) 3.53 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2014 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place & Lunar Caustic 3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

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

tags: autumn, foliage, forest, forests, halloween, october, woods

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“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

tags: boat, growth, inspiration, moving, moving-forward, sailing, sea, searching-and-finding, travel

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June 2020 New School Classic Read

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré, 1963, 224 pages

93 votes, 28.1%

True Grit by Charles Portis, 1968, 224 pages

70 votes, 21.1%

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, 1985, 400 pages

49 votes, 14.8%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921, 255 pages

43 votes, 13.0%

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, 1947, 397 pages

31 votes, 9.4%

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington, 1918, 288 pages

28 votes, 8.5%

Half a Lifelong Romance by Eileen Chang, 1948, 379 pages

17 votes, 5.1%

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