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It is the Day of the Dead. The fiesta in full swing. In the shadow of Popocatepeti ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate...and the ugly pariah dogs roam the streets.
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Grave, prestige, earnest and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Malcolm Lowry
- First published
- 1947
- Pages
- 391
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial Modern Classics, Editions Buchet/Chastel, En bok för alla
- Editions
- 53
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, new, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9780452255951
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“Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaux.”
Clarence Malcolm Lowry was a British poet and novelist who was best known for his novel, Under the Volcano. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Lowry
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