In the late 1930s, he worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood, and came to B.C. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. He published his first novel, Ultramarine, in 1933, but it wasn’t a commercial success and he seems to have lived largely off a small monthly remittance from his family. His father was a wealthy cotton broker, but Lowry rejected the family business to become an author. “The damned hero, an English consul in Mexico, going through his dance of death in an alcoholic stupor is clearly a portrait of the artist on his road to hell,” Martin Knelman wrote in a 1976 article in Weekend magazine.Ĭlarence Malcolm Lowry was born in New Brighton, England, on July 28, 1909. Lowry was a notorious boozer, and many see the alcoholic British consul as autobiographical. The main character is an alcoholic British consul whose wife has left him, much as Lowry’s first wife had left him in Mexico after Lowry’s alcoholism got too much. The novel is set in Mexico on the Day of the Dead in 1938. There were no neighbours to disturb his writing, and he could swim every morning from his front porch.” SUN The original cutline read: “Lowry was attracted to the spot seven years ago by its solitude. Author Malcolm Lowry outside his waterfront squatter’s shack at Dollarton, by today’s Cates Park in North Vancouver. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Westcoast Homes & Design Previous Issues.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info.
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