Ultramarine

Malcolm Lowry, who would permanently stake his claim to literary immortality with the masterpiece Under the Volcano, wrote Ultramarine, his debut, as an undergraduate at Cambridge. Displaying the linguistic virtuosity and haunting imagery that became signatures of Lowry's mature style, Ultramarine is the story of Dana Hilliot's first voyage, as messboy on the freighter Oedipus Tyrannus bound for Bombay and Singapore: of his struggle to win the approval of his shipmates, trying to match their example in the bars and bordellos of the Chinese ports while at tremaining faithful to his first love, Janet, back home in England. Ultramarine depicts a boy's initiation into the company of men.Lowry, Malcolm is the author of 'Ultramarine', published 2005 under ISBN 9781585676958 and ISBN 1585676950.