HEAR US O LORD FROM HEAVEN THY DWELLING PLACE (283 pp.)—Malcolm Lowry—Lippincott ($4.95). The late Malcolm Lowry was the Dylan Thomas of modern fiction. Like Thomas, he was a hypnotic user and abuser ...

DARK AS THE GRAVE WHEREIN MY FRIEND IS LAID by Malcolm Lowry. 255 pages. New American Library. $5.95. Malcolm Lowry suffered the agonies of a man who combined Proustian ambitions with a writer’s block ...

UNDERTHE VOLCANO (375 pp.)— Malcolm Lowry—Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). Few novels of recent years have come into the world with as much intellectual fanfare as Under the Volcano. Poet Stephen Spender ...