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The perfect novel to read on morphine

I lived and breathed and dreamed this hallucinatory, alcoholic suicide note

Albert Finney as the sockless honorary consul Geoffrey Firmin in the 1984 film of Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano. [AJ Pics / Alamy Stock Photo]

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