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100 1 _aLowry, Malcolm,
_d 1909-1957.
_912024
245 1 0 _aUnder the volcano /
_c Malcolm Lowry ; with an introduction by Stephen Spender.
250 _a1st Perennial Classics ed.
260 _aNew York :
_b Perennial Classics,
_c 2000.
300 _axxvi, 397 p. ;
_c 21 cm.
490 1 _a Perennial classics
500 _aOriginally published: J.B. Lippincott, 1947.
520 3 _aOn a single, fateful day in Quauhnahuac, Mexico, 1938, a former British consul wrestles with his demons as his wife tries to rescue their marriage from his drinking problem -- On the Day of the Dead, in 1938, Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic and ruined man, is fatefully living out his last day, drowning himself in mescal while his former wife and half-brother look on, powerless to help him. The events of this one day unfold against a backdrop unforgettable for its evocation of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical.
650 0 _aAlcoholics
_v Fiction.
_912025
650 0 _aConsuls
_v Fiction.
_912026
650 0 _aBritish
_z Mexico
_v Fiction.
_912027
651 0 _aCuernavaca (Mexico)
_v Fiction.
_912028
650 0 _aAll Souls’ Day
_v Fiction.
_912029
655 7 _aPsychological fiction.
_2 lcsh
_912030
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