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Yes, Doug, I remember 'The Forest Path to the Spring', it's beautiful. I recall too his being claimed as Canadian, somehow I suspect he would have approved, as Britain certainly disowned him. Wasn't his wife a minor Hollywood starlet? Recall too that the shack was always burning down, a useful thing that he found with editorial deadlines, and was it not an island in the bay where he actually lived? Best Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 2:55 PM Subject: Re: Book Review- Moby Dick > >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 > > Douglas Barbour > Department of English > University of Alberta > Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 > (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm > > I chose poetry because every line set out > so hopefully from a new margin, and > because my heart was hot and unbowed. > > Michele Leggott >