![]() “The damned hero, an English consul in Mexico, going through his dance of death in an alcoholic stupor is clearly a portrait of the artist on his road to hell,” Martin Knelman wrote in a 1976 article in Weekend magazine.Ĭlarence Malcolm Lowry was born in New Brighton, England, on July 28, 1909. Lowry was a notorious boozer, and many see the alcoholic British consul as autobiographical. The main character is an alcoholic British consul whose wife has left him, much as Lowry’s first wife had left him in Mexico after Lowry’s alcoholism got too much. ![]() The novel is set in Mexico on the Day of the Dead in 1938. There were no neighbours to disturb his writing, and he could swim every morning from his front porch.” SUN The original cutline read: “Lowry was attracted to the spot seven years ago by its solitude. Author Malcolm Lowry outside his waterfront squatter’s shack at Dollarton, by today’s Cates Park in North Vancouver. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]() Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info. ![]()
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