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Under the Volcano

A Novel

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Under the Volcano

By: Malcolm Lowry
Narrated by: Nick Ullett
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 Beneath the twin shadows of Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl in Mexico, the Consul is drunk. He staggers from bar to bar hoping to find salvation staining the bottom of the next glass. His lonely existence is disrupted when his former wife, Yvonne, returns with, Hugh, the Consul's half-brother. But the reunion turns sour when a local peasant turns up dead, beginning a series of events that will decide the Consul's fate. In the course of one day an entire life is chronicled, set against the backdrop of Europe during the Spanish Civil War.Recording (P)1997 by Audio Literature; Copyright ©1975 by Margerie Bonner Lowry, Copyright ©1994 by the Estate of Malcolm Lowry Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mexico Latin America

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