One character in this novel watches a girl play with an armadillo outside a bar where she discusses her relationship with a guitar-playing journalist who spent a year sailing on the Philoctetes.
When one character in this novel is delighted by a bird she thinks is a cardinal, the protagonist informs her that it is a coppery-tailed trogon while they sit in an unkempt garden where he later finds a sign asking people not to let their children destroy it. One character in this novel watches a girl play with an armadillo outside a bar where she discusses her relationship with a guitar-playing journalist who spent a year sailing on the Philoctetes. Peter (*) Lorre's remake of The Hands of Orlac plays at the cinema in this novel, whose characters are haunted by an abyssal barranca and often discuss the Battle of the Ebro. Pariah dogs shadow this novel's strychnine-imbibing protagonist, who competes with his half-brother Hugh for the affections of his ex-wife Yvonne. For 10 points, name this novel about an alcoholic British consul in Quauhnahuac, set on the Day of the Dead and written by Malcolm Lowry.
When one character in this novel is delighted by a bird she thinks is a cardinal, the protagonist informs her that it is a coppery-tailed trogon while they sit in an unkempt garden where he later finds a sign asking people not to let their children destroy it.
Under the Volcano