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List Price: $13.00Amazon.com's Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780802151827
ISBN: 0802151825
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 348
Publication Date: January 13, 1994
Publisher: Grove Press
Sales Rank: 38861
Studio: Grove Press
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature.
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Like 'Tropic of Cancer,' this one will blow yer mind, man. Miller details his life working an office gig in Manhattan, shlepping papers back & forth over his desk while working up the nerve to give it all up & escape to Paris to become a full-time 'artiste' & writer. (Good thing he did, too).
The passages describing his nervous breakdown (while crossing the Brooklyn Bridge) are heart-rending. His relationship with June (that foul, evil, smelly, lying, cheating, heartless, cruel, ... Read More
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I was looking forward to reading this book, but unfortunately most of it was self indulgent filler with absolutely no payoff. Sure, blinding light would occasionally cut through the floating gray clouds of endless paragraphs, but for the most part this book seemed more like a literary endurance test. The beginning piqued my curiosity, but reading the rest of the book made me feel like I just wanted to get my money's worth. I think the most depressing thing about the book was toward the end when Miller ... Read More
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I may have a soft spot for this book because it's the first of his I read, but this comes off as no less than his finest hour. The first fifty or so pages are almost unbeatable. Miller nails the very essence of the American character down with an unflinching vitriol that hasn't really been matched in anything else I've read. Given how banal much of the literature that comprises the curriculum in public schools is, I was somewhat shocked and completely mesmerized by someone exposing the degradation ... Read More
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Like Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn is part autobiography, part memoir, part polemic, part fiction, part fantasy, and part poetry, written in near stream of consciousness as Miller experiences one epiphany after another.
As with the prior book, Miller's ramblings are the source and the result of his efforts to define himself as an artist. Other contemporary American writers, for example, F. Scott Fitzgerald, seem fascinated by their significance as artists and by the future importance ... Read More
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An entertaining book! Miller is probably the most cynical person in the universe. Only problem I had with the book is that this author rants on in a mystical sort of way every now and then, and then it spans a few pages at a time. I found these "rants" incomprehensible, I did not care for them.
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