"Strange Comfort" collects the best of Sherrill Grace's many published essays on the novelist and writer Malcolm Lowry, along with new pieces that incorporate her contemporary approach to his work, reflecting on Lowry's most important themes: endless voyaging, the creative role and identity of the artist, the nightmare of history, the pressures of memory, and the urgent need to protect the garden of our world. A visionary, Lowry prophetically addressed the dominant issues of our 21st century. In one of her new essays, Dr. Grace explores his disturbing vision of the devastating impact of perpetual war. Lowry was also an environmentalist avant la lettre, and Grace comments on his hope for the natural world as an escape from the horror 'of existence as sold to you'.