Bibliograph

Renegade, Henry Miller and the making of Tropic of Cancer, Frederick Turner

Type

Label

Renegade, Henry Miller and the making of Tropic of Cancer, Frederick Turner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-230) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Renegade

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

711045625

Responsibility statement

Frederick Turner

Series statement

Icons of America

Sub title

Henry Miller and the making of Tropic of Cancer

Summary

"How Henry Miller, renegade and failed writer, came to understand what literary dynamite he had in him and, drawing on two centuries of New World history, folklore, and popular culture, sent his "war whoop" out over the roofs of the world"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

"Fuck everything!" -- Slaughterhouse -- A great beast -- Folklore of the conquest -- Twain -- Just a Brooklyn boy -- Beginning the streets of sorrow -- The world of sex -- Talk -- Entering the slaughterhouse -- Manhattan monologist -- Cosmodemonic -- She -- Exile -- Where the writers went -- The avant-garde -- Hunger -- June -- An Apache -- Villa Seurat -- What she gave -- 1934 -- Form -- The grounds of great offense -- A new world

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