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In Ballast to the White Sea (Canadian Literature Collection)

By Malcolm Lowry , Chris Ackerley (editor) , Patrick A. McCarthy (editor)

Book information

Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
ISBN
9780776622088, 9780776621807, 9780776621791, 0776622080
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
4 MB (4520489 bytes)
Pages
516\0
Library
SoftArchive
Time added
2023-07-17 08:17:46

Description

In Ballast to the White Sea is Malcolm Lowry’s most ambitious work of the mid-1930s. Inspired by his life experience, the novel recounts the story of a Cambridge undergraduate who aspires to be a writer but has come to believe that both his book and, in a sense, his life have already been “written.” After a fire broke out in Lowry’s squatter’s shack, all that remained of In Ballast to the White Sea were a few sheets of paper. Only decades after Lowry’s death did it become known that his first wife, Jan Gabrial, still had a typescript. This scholarly edition presents, for the first time, the once-lost novel. Patrick McCarthy’s critical introduction offers insight into Lowry’s sense of himself while Chris Ackerley’s extensive annotations provide important information about Lowry’s life and art in an edition that will captivate readers and scholars alike.

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