Under the Volcano Author:Malcolm Lowrey Under the Volcano chronicles the events of a single day... the last day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, British Consul in the town of Quauhnahuac, in Mexico. Lowrey's novel - the story of a man's compulsive alienation from the world and those who love him - gained, in the two decades since his death, a reputation as a modern classic. This Signet... more » edition brings to thousands of new readers a major work which has been compared to the best of Conrad and Joyce.« less