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'Staring out at the river his agony was like a great lidless eye' In this stark, compelling and greatly autobiographical novella, Malcolm Lowry tells the story of Bill Plantagenet, a piano player and ex-sailor who has lost his band and his mind drinking in New York. As Plantagenet commits himself to a Psychiatric hospital to suffer his recovery, Lowry writes with eloquent ferocity on the delusions of madness, and the true meaning of sanity.
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Malcolm Lowry was born in 1909 in New Brighton. He was educated at the Leys School, Cambridge, and St Catharine's College. Between school and university he went to sea, working as a deckhand and trimmer for about six months. His first novel, Ultramarine, was published in 1933. He went to Paris and married his first wife in 1934, and wrote several short stories in Paris and Chartres before going to New York. He then left for Mexico. His first marriage broke up in 1938, and by 1940 he had remarried and settled in British Columbia. During 1941-4, when he was living at Dollarton, he worked on the final version of Under the Volcano. In 1954 he finally returned to England. During half his writing life he lived in a squatter's shack, built largely by himself, near Vancouver. His Selected Letters, edited by H. Breit and Margerie Lowry, appeared in 1967 and Lunar Caustic, part of a large, uncompleted work, appeared in 1963. He died in England in 1957.
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- PublisherCape
- Publication date1968
- ISBN 10 0224613391
- ISBN 13 9780224613392
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages78
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Book Description hardcover. 1st edition. London. 1968. Jonathan Cape. 1st Edition In English. Very Good in Dustjacket That Has A Small Black Pen Mark On The Spine. 0224613391. Edited by Earle Birney & Margerie Lowry. Originally Published In Paris In French In 1963. 78 pages. hardcover. keywords: Poetry Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Staring out at the river his agony was like a great lidless eye'. In this stark, compelling and greatly autobiographical novella, Malcolm Lowry tells the story of Bill Plantagenet, a piano player and ex-sailor who has lost his band and his mind drinking in New York. As Plantagenet commits himself to a psychiatric hospital to suffer his recovery, Lowry writes with eloquent ferocity on the delusions of madness, and the true meaning of sanity. inventory #19320 Very Good in Dustjacket That Has A Small Black Pen Mark On The Spine. Seller Inventory # z19320
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. London. 1968. Jonathan Cape. 1st Edition In English. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0224613391. Edited by Earle Birney & Margerie Lowry. Originally Published In Paris In French In 1963. 78 pages. hardcover. keywords: Poetry Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Staring out at the river his agony was like a great lidless eye'. In this stark, compelling and greatly autobiographical novella, Malcolm Lowry tells the story of Bill Plantagenet, a piano player and ex-sailor who has lost his band and his mind drinking in New York. As Plantagenet commits himself to a psychiatric hospital to suffer his recovery, Lowry writes with eloquent ferocity on the delusions of madness, and the true meaning of sanity. inventory #14678. Seller Inventory # z14678
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reissue. Originally published In Paris in French in 1963. Edited by Earle Birney and Margerie Lowry. Foreword by Conrad Knickerbocker. 12mo. 78pp. Fine in very good dust jacket with some light cover staining and several tiny nicks and tears. The record of Lowry's "deliberate pilgrimage" to Bellevue Hospital, intended to be an important section around his primary work *Under the Volcano*. Seller Inventory # 548600
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