![]() ![]() ![]() Jeered at by his schoolmates for his undersized penis, he got in the habit of stopping off at Liverpool’s Paradise Street Anatomical Museum, which carried a warning about venereal disease that was always to haunt him. ![]() The son of a pious and prosperous cotton broker in Liverpool, young Malcolm began getting into trouble early. Yet with all Lowry’s writing essentially autobiographical, the method has its virtues, though it makes this book not one for beginners. And since Bonner-in Bowker’s eyes, at least-was a baneful influence, the emphasis here is far different from Day’s. We know exactly what Lowry was drinking on what day and what hour-vodka, rum, mescal or just some plonk or a couple of beers.īowker gives equal value to everything in Lowry’s life, not simply to the matter of what he was drinking and when, but also to such details as Lowry’s discovery of why he had always suffered from constipation. Lowry’s habit of writing down everything he observed daily, when he was sober enough to do so, gives Bowker the chance to go into precise detail. Gordon Bowker has had access to further material and he has pursued it in detail, from the mass of papers at the University of British Columbia’s library to the Los Angeles Public Library, with dozens of stops here and abroad in between. ![]() Until now, the only biography of Lowry has been Douglas Day’s “Malcolm Lowry: A Biography,” published in 1973 and written with the help of Lowry’s second wife, Margerie Bonner, an American writer of thrillers. ![]()
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