Book · 1947 · Fiction

Under the Volcano

Harper Perennial (HarperCollins) · 402 pages
★ 8.0 editorial score

Drinking himself to death in Mexico, a British ex-consul is visited by the wife who left him. Lowry gives them one Day of the Dead, written from inside the bottle.

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1947Depicts Interwar PeriodDepicts 1930s