9780300149494 - Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of "tropic of Cancer" (Icons of America) von Turner, Frederick (7 Ergebnisse)

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hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 244 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. New Haven: Yale (2011). First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New/New. A pristine unread copy (without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket cover (not clipped, of course). Shipped in well-padded box. Purchased new and never opened. You cannot find a better copy. 0.0.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Icons of America series. First edition, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "The untold story of Henry Miller's explosive 1934 novel, banned in America for more than a quarter century. [] Even though Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer has long since been superseded in its graphic language and explicit sexuality, it remains in a peculiar sort of category, a work that defies conventional characterization. Written in the slums of a foreign city by a man who had been an abject literary failure back home, Tropic of Cancer was published in Paris by a pornographer in 1934. It was then banned in America for twenty-seven years, until Barney Rosset's Grove Press at last triumphed over the censors. The book's notorious success in 1961 was less because of its intrinsic merits than because its publication in America broke so many taboos. [] Half a century later, many critics, teachers, and readers still feel uneasy about this singular volume. They may be willing to grant that it changed the national literature, but they are unwilling to admit that it is truly representative of much that is important about American literature and culture. In fact, Tropic of Cancer is deeply in the American grain, for better or worse--or both. It is lawless, violent, colorful, misogynistic, anarchical, bigoted, and shaped by the same forces that shaped the nation. It draws on more than two centuries of New World history, folklore, and popular culture in ways that no American work had done before--not those of Emerson, not Walden, not Huckleberry Finn. How Henry Miller, outcast and renegade, came finally to understand what literary dynamite he had within him, how he learned to send out his 'war whoop,' as he put it, over the roofs of the world, is the subject of Turner's literary and cultural investigation." [jacket copy] "Frederick Turner makes the case that Tropic of Cancer and its author are as quintessentially American as Walt Whitman and Mark Twain, and argues that Miller's prose is part of a deep strain in American culture that mistrusts highbrow anything, literature especially, but celebrates talk, and loves big talk best: It was not just a fish, but the biggest fish. Turner's story traces Miller's mid-twentieth-century ramble back through the dark passages of US history."--Sheila Heti, Bookforum. "An entertaining and skillful evocation of the time when Miller's memoir of bottom-feeding American expats in Paris was known as the dirtiest book in the world."--Lee Sandlin, Wall Street Journal. "Turner tells a good story: how Miller's Tropic of Cancer came to be written, came to be banned and came to be an American classic."--New York Times Book Review. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in an intact, darkly evocative jacket. Quite presentable.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy of a first edition, first impression hardback in a fine, unclipped dustjacket. All books are swathed in biodegradable bubble wrap and posted in strong, custom made book boxes to ensure undamaged delivery.