Ultramarine - Softcover

Lowry, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585676950 ISBN 13: 9781585676958

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Malcolm Lowry, who would permanently stake his claim to literary immortality with the masterpiece Under the Volcano, wrote Ultramarine, his debut, as an undergraduate at Cambridge. Displaying the linguistic virtuosity and haunting imagery that became signatures of Lowry's mature style, Ultramarine, a novel he continually rewrote and revised from publication until his death, is one of his central works, and this new edition offers the opportunity for a fuller assessment of his place in the modern canon.Ultramarine is the story of Dana Hilliot's first voyage, as mess-boy on the freighter Oedipus Tyrannus bound for Bombay and Singapore: of his struggle to win the approval of his shipmates, trying to match their example in the bars and bordellos of the Chinese ports while at the same time remaining faithful to his first love, Janet, back home in England. Alternating between Dana's own narrative and the ribald humor and colorful language of the seamen's conversation, Ultramarine depicts a boy's initiation into the company of men.

About this title

About the Author:

Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) was raised in Enlgand and died there but lived much of his troubled life semi-nomodically in New York, Mexico and British Columbia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1585676950
• ISBN 13: 9781585676958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 203