Tropic of Cancer

Miller, Henry

Published by Grove Press, Inc., 1961

About this Item

[Stated First Printing] Bound in publisher's black and blue cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Water damage to top edge (text unaffected). xxxiii, 318 p., 21 cm. Tropic of Cancer is an autobiographical novel by Henry Miller, published in France in 1934 and, because of censorship, not published in the United States until 1961. Written in the tradition of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, it relates Miller's picaresque life as an impoverished expatriate in France in the early 1930s. The book benefited from favorable early critical response and gained popular notoriety later as a result of obscenity trials. Containing little by way of plot, Tropic of Cancer is composed of anecdotes, philosophizing, and rambling celebrations of life. Despite his poverty, Miller extols his manner of living, unfettered as it is by moral and social conventions. He lives largely off the resources of his friends. In exuberant and sometimes preposterous passages of unusual sexual frankness, he chronicles numerous encounters with women, including his own mysterious wife (in the character Mona), as he pursues his fascination with female sexuality. Seller Inventory # 2405020198

Bibliographic Details

Title: Tropic of Cancer

Publisher: Grove Press, Inc.

Publication Date: 1961

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition.