‘Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light’ Enraptured by a young woman’s account of the landscapes of Greece, Henry Miller set off...
This book recounts Miller’s life in Big Sur, and is a perfect rendition of time and place. The quality of writing is tremendous, and the passion for the area really comes through in the writing.
Miller’s groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years, now reinvigorated in a new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating...
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