Tropic of Capricorn : with an introduction by Robert Nye

The controversial, erotic and hilarious companion to the legendary Tropic of Cancer, in a smart new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A riotous and explosive mixture of joys and frustrations, Tropic of Capricorn chronicles Miller's early life in New York, from his repressive Brooklyn childhood spent amongst 'a galaxy of screwballs' to frantic, hilarious years of dead-end jobs and innumerable erotic adventures. Irreverent and ironic, Tropic of Capricorn is both a comic portrait of the irrepressible Miller himself and a scathing attack on respectable America, the very foundations of which he hoped to shatter. The publication of Tropic of Capricorn and its sister-volume Tropic of Cancer in Paris in the 1930s was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. The books were subsequently banned in the UK and the USA for nearly thirty years. Companion to Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer which shifts the scene from France to his life in the United States, covering his life in Brooklyn in the 1920s. This fictional autobiography explores the author's New York boyhood and adolescence, and his sexual awakening and adventures. Miller also gives a fictionalised account of his time as company spy and personnel manager for the "Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company", raging at the social evils of the American free enterprise twenties SUMMARY: The controversial, erotic and hilarious companion to the legendary Tropic of Cancer, in a smart new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. Author explores the sources of his early life in New York and undertakes to define a view of his country. Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.