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Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry

Gordon Bowker's great achievement is to tell Malcolm Lowry's epic, frustrating story without distortion or embellishment. Friends, relatives, wives, and doctors have helped Bowker to paint an unblinking portrait of the man and the writer. Bowker scoured archives and unearthed many revealing photographs to produce this trustworthy biography. The real Malcolm Lowry emerges and forces readers to re-examine his underexposed, underprized fiction.

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 672 pages

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