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Under the Volcano is a novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) published in 1947. The novel tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the Mexican city of Quauhnahuac, on the Day of the Dead in November 1938.
On the most fateful day of the consul's life—the Day of the Dead—his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse.
Jun 13, 1984 · Under the Volcano: Directed by John Huston. With Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Ignacio López Tarso. A day in the life of a self-destructive British consul in Mexico on the eve of World War II.
Jul 20, 2021 · Under the Volcano - Official Trailer. On DVD & Blu-ray: https://www.underthevolcanomovie.comOn a remote Caribbean island, in the shadow of a volcano, the world's biggest recording artists...
Under the Volcano, masterwork of Malcolm Lowry, published in 1947 and reissued in 1962. Set in Mexico in the late 1930s, Under the Volcano is the story of the last desperate day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a dispirited alcoholic and former British consul.
"Under the Volcano" is the story of the last day in his drinking. He lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in the years just before World War II. He is not really the British consul anymore: he was only a vice consul, anyway, and now that has been stripped from him, and he simply drinks.
Aug 20, 2021 · Then, between 1995 and 1997, Montserrat’s volcano erupted, burying the capital, Plymouth, destroying the airport and making the southern half of the island uninhabitable.
