Description
Sherrill Grace shows how Malcolm Lowry's theme of a cyclical
pattern of initiation, repeated ordeals with failure and retreat,
followed by success and development, which in turn gave way to fresh
defeat, influenced the structure, narrative style, and the symbolic
pattern in his writing. The author also includes an appendix in which
she examines the elements of Conrad Aiken's fiction and prose that
had a significant impact on Lowry's work.