Henry Miller: A Life

ISBN: 0393310191

Author: Ferguson, Robert

Condition: New

In this engrossing biography Ferguson measures the cheerful amoralist of Tropic of Cancer and The Rosy Crucifixion against the guilt-ridden, insecure male in revolt against his bourgeois Brooklyn family. . . . The Miller in these pages is neither the macho bully portrayed by feminists nor the adolescent sexual philosopher dismissed by the academic establishment, but a uniqueand necessary literary figure, a popular American sage.Richly rewarding. -Publishers Weekly The only biography Henry Miller ever wanted was the one he himself wrote in the brash, life-affirming fictions of The Tropic of Capricorn, The Tropic of Cancer, and The Rosy Crucifixion. But Robert Fergusons new biography tells a different tale; for where the novels are sexually explicit and brutally frank-woundingly so to those close to Miller-they are also the fantasies of a man escaping from his past, and from himself.

• HENRY MILLER, A. LIFE | ROBERT FERGUSON