>Malcolm Lowry was British; but he lived in British Columbia when he wrote
>Under the Volcano, which may not be Dostoevsky, but is pretty damned good...
I'd add, since the tak has gone on a bit, that he lived there, in a shack
on the shore, for quite some time, wrote a number of novels & short stories
set there, & was, back in the 60s (& still, to some extent) claimed as a
'Canadian' writer, or what one critic called 'one of our splendid birds of
passage'. One novella, 'The Forest Path to the Spring,' set in BC, is
stunning (& like so much of his writing, a fiction based upon
autobiography).
Doug
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I chose poetry because every line set out
so hopefully from a new margin, and
because my heart was hot and unbowed.
Michele Leggott
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