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In Ballast to the White Sea

In Ballast to the White Sea

Lowry, Malcolm
McCarthy, Patrick A.
Ackerley, Chris

Paperback

Series: Canadian Literature Collection

Literary Criticism

Publisher Price: $44.95

ISBN10: 0776622080
ISBN13: 9780776622088
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: Sep 30 2014
Pages: 516
Weight: 1.26
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.07 Depth: 7.96
Language: English

This is the first edition of In Ballast to the White Sea, the autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry, known to most only through the highly romanticized story of its loss in a fire. In fact, the typescript itself has probably been read by at most a dozen people since Lowry scholars learned that it was deposited at the New York Public Library.

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.

Published in English.

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