Lawrence writes on rebirth and reflects on the ambience of Mexico and New Mexico in this 1926 novel of a woman whose passions inspire her to flee an unexciting husband. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. Book DescriptionThe story of a European woman’s self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico. Lawrence’s mesmerizing and unsettling 1926 novel is his great work of the political imagination. .