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'It was the ideal street - for a boy, a lover, a maniac, a drunkard, a crook, a lecher, a thug' In 1920s New York one Henry V. Miller, personnel manager of the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Co., spends his days hiring and firing a succession of wasters, maniacs, perverts, ex-cons, idiots and whores - while also writing the most important work of literature ever published and enjoying increasingly outrageous erotic exploits. Banned for thirty years, this riotous companion piece to Tropic of Cancer is a frank portrait of the Brooklyn of Miller's youth - its skyscrapers and sewers, its lusts and dejection - and a savage attack on America. 'American Literature begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done.' Lawrence Durrell 'His writing is flamboyant, torrential, chaotic, treacherous, and dangerous.' Anaïs Nin
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Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- Tropic of Capricorn
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Henry Miller
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 300
- ISBN10
- 0141399147
- ISBN13
- 9780141399140
- Series
- Collection
- Modern Classics (Penguin Books)
- Tags
- True Stories, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, USA, Erotica, American Literature, Society, Autobiographical Novels, Beatniks
- First published
- 1939
- Original title
- Tropic of Capricorn
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- 'It was the ideal street - for a boy, a lover, a maniac, a drunkard, a crook, a lecher, a thug' In 1920s New York one Henry V. Miller, personnel manager of the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Co., spends his days hiring and firing a succession of wasters, maniacs, perverts, ex-cons, idiots and whores - while also writing the most important work of literature ever published and enjoying increasingly outrageous erotic exploits. Banned for thirty years, this riotous companion piece to Tropic of Cancer is a frank portrait of the Brooklyn of Miller's youth - its skyscrapers and sewers, its lusts and dejection - and a savage attack on America. 'American Literature begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done.' Lawrence Durrell 'His writing is flamboyant, torrential, chaotic, treacherous, and dangerous.' Anaïs Nin