Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortlessly from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and New York, he captures like no one else the blending of people and the cities they inhabit.
Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth...
The resurfacing of characters from Olga’s past in her new city speaks to the theme of immigration in the novel, of new homes and the passage from old to new—a passage that is perhaps not ever fully complete in the sense that the past ...
Whether drawn by the romantic, the magical, or the gothic, readers will be irresistibly compelled by the passion of this tragic tale.
Black Spring
"A collection of articles on photographers, musicians, artists, and writers, many of them with a strong autobiographical element and sense of place, the Lower East Side of New York City where the author came of age in the fertile 1970s and ...
Lina is enchanting, vibrant but wilful.
... Fright from the Black Lagoon #14: The New Year's Eve Sleepover from the Black Lagoon #15: The Spring Dance from the Black Lagoon #16: The Thanksgiving Day from the Black Lagoon - #17: The Summer Vacation from the Black Lagoon . -" ...
Carolyn Cassady reveals a side of Neal Cassady rarely seen-that of husband and father, a man who craved respectability, yet could not resist the thrills of a wilder and ultimately more destructive lifestyle.
This dark, autobiographical coming-of-age novel reads more like an exorcism than a memoirIn Dark Spring, author Unica Zürn traces the roots of her obsessions: The exotic father she idealized, the...
The first novel of the Black Wings urban fantasy series, by Christina Henry, author of Alice and Lost Boy.