Tropic of Cancer - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0394623754 ISBN 13: 9780394623757

Miller’s groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years. ‘A ranting, randy book carried along by a deep, sensual enjoyment of living.’ Sunday Times

A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930.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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Review:

‘A ranting, randy book carried along by a deep, sensual enjoyment of living.’ Sunday Times

‘Tropic of Cancer is a great prophetic book, a warning of what deadens life, an affirmation that it can yet be lived in an age whose sterile non-cultures seek to thwart all mainsprings of fertility. Miller reveals himself as a battered faun, a crafty innocent, a lonely, lazy, sometimes fearful, always steadfast, worshipper of life’ Spectator

From the Back Cover:

" The best pages are white hot and inspired, both funny and terrible... Miller can communicate, and induce in the reader, a delicious delight in the fact of being alive."
ROBERT NYE

'I have a bottle between my legs and I am shoving the corkscrew in. Mrs. Wren has her mouth parted expectantly. The wine is splashing between my legs, the sun is splashing through the bay window, and inside my veins there is a bubble and a splash of a thousand crazy things that commence to gush out of me... With the bottle between my legs and the sun splashing through the window I experience once again the splendour of those miserable days when I first arrived in Paris... the feeling of suffocation, the fat cockroaches, the drinking and carousing...'

"'Tropic of Cancer' is a ranting, randy book carried along by a deep, sensual enjoyment of living."
SUNDAY TIMES

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