Dark as the grave wherein my friend is laid

A posthumously published novel, edited from Lowry's manuscripts. Sigbjørn Wilderness, a writer whose famous book has been made into a film, returns to Mexico with his wife, hoping to revisit the places of his earlier life. There he searches for a lost friend and is confronted with the memories and mistakes of his past. The story is closely based on Lowry's own return to Mexico and reads as a sequel in spirit to Under the Volcano. It explores guilt, friendship and the way writers use their own lives as material.