The letters of Malcolm Lowry and Gerald Noxon, 1940-1952 / edited and with an introduction by Paul Tiessen ; assisted by Nancy Strobel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957.

Contributor:

Noxon, Gerald.

Tiessen, Paul.

Strobel, Nancy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957--Correspondence.

Lowry, Malcolm.

Noxon, Gerald--Correspondence.

Noxon, Gerald.

Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957.

Novelists, English--20th century--Correspondence.

Novelists, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The eighty letters, cards and other messages in this correspondence -- produced mainly by Lowry and Gerald Noxon but also by Margerie (Bonner) Lowry -- offer a fresh introduction to Lowry, a certain 'Canadian' Lowry. At the same time they give insight into two writing careers (Bonner and Noxon) closely intertwined with his and vigorously championed by him in the 1940s. The letters observe the mind of Lowry at play on questions of literary technique, on films, and on the beauties and rigors of life in his Dollarton shack on an inlet near Vancouver. They reveal a warm, supportive, enormously sensitive and intelligent man, modifying somewhat the image of him now available. With their dramatization of Noxon's role in Lowry's writing career, they illuminate for the first time something of Lowry's method of actually solving the problems he encountered in re-writing Under the Volcano. Noxon, CBC radio dramatist, novelist, and poet, emerges as a talented and perceptive writer who was able to encourage Lowry both morally and practically. Noxon's deftness in expertly combining the unofficial roles of devoted and spirited family member and literary editor gives the letters -- often brimming with high spirits and fond affection -- a relaxed and buoyant tone missing from much other Lowry correspondence.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Chronology

INTRODUCTION

THE WRITERS

THE TEXT

SOURCES AND EDITIONS USED

THE LETTERS

PART I: AUGUST 1940 TO MAY 1944

Letters 1-6: August 1940 to January 1941

Letters 7-28: Summer 1941 to May 1944

PART II: JUNE 1944 TO JUNE 1945

Letters 29-41: June 1944 to September 1944

Letters 42-46: February 1945 to June 1945

PART III: DECEMBER 1945 TO SPRING 1952

Letters 47-53: December 1945 to Spring 1946

Letters 54-66: July 1946 to February 1947

Letters 67-76: March 1947 to August 1947

Letter 77: June 1948

Letters 78-80: January 1952 to Spring 1952

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliography: p. 20-21 and index.

ISBN:

9786613225801

9781283225809

1283225808

9780774854818

0774854812

OCLC:

144143278