PATRICK DACEY

Old Hard Love

Month: April, 2012

Malcolm Lowry’s “Under the Volcano”

I’ve read most of the great alcoholic/addict fiction out there (The Lost Weekend, A Fan’s Notes, Jesus’ Son, Carver’s Stories), and believe them to be very accurate and handled well by writers who have lived in such hells, but none of these books seem to come as close to getting inside the mind of an [...]