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Millers groundbreaking first novel banned in Britain for almost thirty yearsnow reinvigorated in a new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. Apenniless and as yet unpublished writer Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930.Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America hethrew himself into the lowlife of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. Afictional account of Millers adventures amongst the prostitutes and pimps thepenniless painters and writers of Montparnasse Tropic of Cancer is anextravagant and rhapsodic hymn to a world of unrivalled eroticism and freedom.Tropic of Cancers 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett asa momentous event in the history of modern writing. The novel wassubsequently banned in the UK and the USA and not released for publication fora further thirty years. «
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