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OCTOBER FERRY TO GABRIOLA by Malcolm Lowry. Edited by Margerie Lowry. 320 pages. World...
...appears that the worldwide Lowry vogue is to face its sternest test, a spate of posthumous manuscripts. There is a novella, Lunar Caustic, set in the psychiatric wards of New York City's Bellevue Hospital, and a full-length novel, October Ferry to Gabriola, about a guilt-haunted alcoholic, the latter work to be published in 1962. A couple of years ago, a longtime Lowry friend, Canadian Teacher Downie Kirk, salvaged a 3-ft. stack of manuscripts (poems, letters, stories, drafts of novels) from Lowry's British Columbia home, a squatter's cottage. Hear Us O Lord...