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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  Weirdbeard | Apr 30, 2009 |  See Under the Volcano at From Word to Word  jeremylukehill | Feb 24, 2009 | Thoroughly unsatisfying. Lowry's Mexico is superficial and his style, though lyrical at times, unfitting. (  ) jorgearanda | Feb 8, 2009 | Purchase a large bottle of tequila and start walking from Ernest Hemingway's house to Vladimir Nabokov's house. As you're walking, take a drink for the sake of squandered love. Then take one for isolation. Take one drink for war, and two for peace. Take one for world-weariness. Take one for betrayal. Take a big one for fear. Take a bigger one for the allure of death. Take one for a chasm opened between lovers. Take one for connections that span oceans, continents. Take one for filthy, homeless dogs. And take one long drink, just for the sake of it. If you do this right, you will end up passed out in a ditch somewhere between Hemingway and Nabokov, and you will have a fair idea of what 'Under the Volcano' is like. 6  clogbottom | Jan 10, 2009 | spwebdesign | Nov 26, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0060955228, Paperback)Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. Here the consul's debilitating malaise is drinking, and activity that has overshadowed his life. Under the Volcano is set during the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938. His wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac to rescue him and their failing marriage, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. Yvonne's mission is to save the consul is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half-brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one day unfold against a backdrop unforgettable for its evocation of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical. Under the Volcano remains one of the most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition and one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:01 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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As a young man it was always my ambition to become an alcoholic but having read this and 'Set This House on Fire' by Styron I'm glad I didn't suceed. Mexico, where the book is set, seems a beautiful place for an all day binge and Lowry waxes lyrical upon the fauna and flora (especially the flora) . Plenty of cheap bars selling head banging spirits provide the ideal location for the story's 'hero' to engage on his suicidal pub crawl. His ex-wife and half-brother tag along ineffectually but in the end only the Mexican authorities can really deliver the satisfactory result which both 'the consul' and the reader desires. (