{"product_id":"the-voyage-that-never-ends","title":"The Voyage That Never Ends - Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters","description":"\u003cb\u003eA NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotorious for a misspent life full of binges, blackouts, and unimaginable bad luck, Malcolm Lowry managed, against every odd, to complete and publish two novels, one of them, \u003ci\u003eUnder the Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e, an indisputable masterpiece. At the time of his death in 1957, Lowry also left behind a great deal of uncollected and unpublished writing: stories, novellas, drafts of novels and revisions of drafts of novels (Lowry was a tireless revisiter and reviser—and interrupter—of his work), long, impassioned, haunting, beautiful letters overflowing with wordplay and lament, fraught short poems that display a sozzled off-the-cuff inspiration all Lowry’s own. Over the years these writings have appeared in various volumes, all long out of print. Here, in \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage That Never Ends\u003c\/i\u003e, the poet, translator, and critic Michael Hofmann has drawn on all this scattered and inaccessible material to assemble the first book that reflects the full range of Lowry’s extraordinary and singular achievement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a revelation. In the letters—acknowledged to be among modern literature’s greatest—we encounter a character who was, as contemporaries attested, as spellbinding and lovable as he was self-destructive and infuriating. In the late fiction—the long story “Through the Panama,” sections of unfinished novels such as \u003ci\u003eDark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid\u003c\/i\u003e, and the little-known \u003ci\u003eLa Mordida\u003c\/i\u003e—we discover a writer who is blazing a path into the unknown and, as he goes, improvising a whole new kind of writing. Lowry had set out to produce a great novel, something to top \u003ci\u003eUnder the Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e, a multivolume epic and intimate tale of purgatorial suffering and ultimate redemption (called, among other things, “The Voyage That Never Ends”). That book was never to be. What he produced instead was an unprecedented and prophetic blend of fact and fiction, confession and confusion, essay and free play, that looks forward to the work of writers as different as Norman Mailer and William Gass, but is like nothing else. Almost in spite of himself, Lowry succeeded in transforming his disastrous life into an exhilarating art of disaster. \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage That Never Ends\u003c\/i\u003e is a new and indispensable entry into the world of one of the masters of modern literature.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50957415317792,"sku":"9781590172353","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781590172353.jpg?v=1763755612","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/the-voyage-that-never-ends","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}