Description: English writer Malcolm Lowry’s novel Under the Volcano (1947) concerns the final day of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic diplomat whose friends try to stop him from drinking himself to death in Mexico. Under the Volcano is ranked eleventh on the Modern Library's list of the best English language novels of the twentieth century. Monsieur Laruelle and the local doctor, Dr. Vigil, sit and drink in the Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. It is November 2, 1939, the Mexican Day of the Dead. They discuss their mutual acquaintance, Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in Mexico. They talk about his alcoholism and the surprising fact that Firmin's wife, Yvonne, returned to Mexico for him.
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Publication Year: 1947
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Under the Volcano
Author: Under the Volcano
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock
Topic: Alcoholism