![]() ![]() The novel was subsequently banned in the UK and the USA and not released for publication for a further thirty years.". Tropic of Cancer's 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst the prostitutes and pimps, the penniless painters and writers of Montparnasse, Tropic of Cancer is an extravagant and rhapsodic hymn to a world of unrivalled eroticism and freedom. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. ![]() A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. "Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years. "A stream-of-consciousness story of a poverty-stricken young American, living in Paris.". ![]()
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