Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place & Lunar Caustic

Pocketbok. Penguin Books. 1979. 346 sidor.

Gott skick. Språk: Engelska.
Seven stories and novellas by the author of Under the Volcano, a master of twentieth-century fiction.
For fans of the novel Under the Volcano, this collection of stories—many of them published for the first time posthumously—provides great insight into the author’s genius. The stories range from heartfelt tragedy to exuberant triumph. In the novella “Through the Panama,” a burned-out, alcoholic writer tries to make sense of the literature that has kept him afloat while the pulse of his life grows harder to distinguish. In “The Forest Path to Spring,” a couple that has survived hell finds new life in the seclusion of a vast forest. And in “The Bravest Boat,” a young boy sends a message across the ocean to an unknown recipient. Together, these stories reveal a writer who traveled widely, observed keenly, and maintained an engrossing literary style that still reverberates today.

This edition includes "Lunar Caustic" Lowry's visionary account of his time spent in Bellevue Hospital. It is, as one reviewer wrote, "a meticulous, passionate book, the rare work that springs from direct involvement yet is polished, perfected, refelt and reconsidered over the years. It sets down the horrors of alcoholism with an intensity that, as happens in any art at a high level, turns pain into pleasure, squalor into beauty".