Word: reconnections
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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Does he go to reconnect with old sources of life or to seek out a familiar place to die? The risk is written on every page, beginning with an astonishing, tumbling opening sentence of 198 words (". . . the moving shadow of the plane below them, the eternal moving cross . . ."). At first, Wilderness seems like a man going to be buried rather than resurrected. The news catches up with him that his latest novel, The Valley of the Shadow of Death (Lowry's original title for Under the Volcano), has been turned down by his British publisher. After that disappointment...