Tropic of Cancer

Name: Tropic of Cancer
Author: Henry Miller

by Henry Miller

Autobiographical novel of an American writer's bohemian life in Paris

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Henry Miller

Henry Miller was the great libertarian outlaw of American fiction whose Paris novels—Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn—were banned in America for decades and read as contraband. His celebration of erotic freedom and existential vitality influenced the Beats and the counterculture.

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