"Lowry’s imagery isn’t the only heavy-handed aspect of Under the Volcano. The prose, too,..."

“Lowry’s imagery isn’t the only heavy-handed aspect of Under the Volcano. The prose, too, is both richly evocative and unrestrained—a riotous orgy of logophilia, thick with allusions to literature both classic and obscure, which creates an almost literally intoxicating effect. Under the Volcano therefore achieves a remarkable goal: its prose feels completely shitfaced.”

- from ‘“Just the Necessary, the Therapeutic Drink”: Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano’, Chad Parkhill’s Booze column in The Lifted Brow #22. Click here to buy your copy and get drunk on 92,000 of the best words around.