Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch - Softcover

Henry Miller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671788256 ISBN 13: 9780671788254

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1975

Synopsis

Miller, Henry. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch. New York, Pocket Books / Simon & Schuster, 1975. 10.5 x 18cm. 400 pages. Original softcover with red stained edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. In his great triptych The Millennium, Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place--one of the most colorful in the U.S.--and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (and writers who didn't write), mystics seeking truth in meditation (and the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or celebrity), sophisticated children and adult innocents; geniuses, cranks and the unclassifiable. Henry Miller writes with a buoyancy and brimming energy that are infectious. He has a fine touch for comedy. But this is also a serious book--the testament of a free spirit who has broken through the restraints and cliches of modern life to find within himself his own kind of paradise. [New Directions]

About this title

Review:

. . . a large scale book written with the skill in essay/fictional writing that will help it remain a classic for years to come.

The only imaginative prose-writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.--George Orwell

About the Author:

Henry Miller was born in Brooklyn, New York. He had a variety of jobs as a young man, including several years working for the Western Union Telegraph Company. During this time, encouraged by June Mansfield Smith, the second of his five wives, Miller began to write. Aside from articles, stories for pulp magazines and prose poems, Miller worked on his first novels ‘Crazy Cock’ and ‘Moloch’, and on the copious notes which would eventually transmute into the notorious ‘Tropics’ books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0671788256
• ISBN 13: 9780671788254
• Binding: Paperback