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Genre/Form: | Erotic stories Autobiographical fiction Erotic fiction Fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. Tropic of Cancer (OCoLC)1236056606 |
Named Person: | Giovanni Paris |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry Miller; Karl Shapiro; Anaïs Nin |
ISBN: | 9780802131782 0802131786 9780586018125 0586018123 9780613706193 0613706196 9781518225062 1518225063 |
OCLC Number: | 289532 |
Description: | xxxiii, 318 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Night people -- The secret life of insects -- The ballad of Easy Earl -- The crime of Marble Lesson. |
Responsibility: | Henry Miller ; introduction by Karl Shapiro ; preface by Anaïs Nin. |
Abstract:
"Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst the prostitutes and pimps, the penniless painters and writers of Montparnasse, Tropic of Cancer is an extravagant and rhapsodic hymn to a world of unrivalled eroticism and freedom. Tropic of Cancer's 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. The novel was subsequently banned in the UK and the USA and not released for publication for a further thirty years." --
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