The Voyage That Never Ends

Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters

Cover Art for 9781590172353, The Voyage That Never Ends by Malcolm Lowry
ISBN: 9781590172353
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 31 August, 2007
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Notorious for a misspent life full of binges, blackouts, and unimaginable bad luck, Malcolm Lowry managed, against every odd, to complete and publish two novels, one of them, Under the Volcano , an indisputable masterpiece. At the time of his death in 1957, Lowry also left behind a great deal of uncollected and unpublished writing: stories, novellas, drafts of novels and revisions of drafts of novels (Lowry was a tireless revisiter and reviserand interrupterof his work), long, impassioned, haunting, beautiful letters overflowing with wordplay and lament, fraught short poems that display a sozzled off-the-cuff inspiration all Lowry's own. Over the years these writings have appeared in various volumes, all long out of print. Here, in The Voyage That Never Ends , the poet, translator, and critic Michael Hofmann has drawn on all this scattered and inaccessible material to assemble the first book that reflects the full range of Lowry's extraordinary and singular achievement. The result is a revelation. In the lettersacknowledged to be among modern literature's greatestwe encounter a character who was, as contemporaries attested, as spellbinding and lovable as he was self-destructive and infuriating. In the late fictionthe long story "Through the Panama," sections of unfinished novels such as Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid , and the little-known La Mordida we discover a writer who is blazing a path into the unknown and, as he goes, impr

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