![]() A perfect storm of circumstances (alcohol abuse, disapproving family, onset of war) left him stranded and he eventually settled in Vancouver, living mainly on the Dollarton waterfront, for 14 years. The Mexicans had essentially kicked him out and the Americans wouldn't let him back in due to a lack of anything resembling independent means. Initially Lowry didn't want to be in Vancouver but the 31-year-old writer was stuck in limbo after he came north to renew his visa. The experiences in the novel have been filtered through many prisms, including second wife Margerie Bonner who collaborated on the book as Lowry's chief typist, editor and bottle washer after he split with Gabrial. 2, 1936 to live out at least some of the story in real time. Under the Volcano, completed at Dollarton and published in 1947, is set in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where Lowry and his first wife Jan Gabrial arrived on the Day of the Dead, Nov. ![]() The funds were distributed in dribs and drabs by a third party who reported back to his father in the U.K. His family kept him on a financial string, tenuous at best, especially after the Second World War started and the flow of money slowed to a trickle. Like Baudelaire, Malcolm Lowry was a remittance man. ![]()
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