Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77879 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Synopsis
The controversial, erotic and hilarious companion to the legendary Tropic of Cancer, in a smart new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A riotous and explosive mixture of joys and frustrations, Tropic of Capricorn chronicles Miller's early life in New York, from his repressive Brooklyn childhood spent amongst 'a galaxy of screwballs' to frantic, hilarious years of dead-end jobs and innumerable erotic adventures. Irreverent and ironic, Tropic of Capricorn is both a comic portrait of the irrepressible Miller himself and a scathing attack on respectable America, the very foundations of which he hoped to shatter. The publication of Tropic of Capricorn and its sister-volume Tropic of Cancer in Paris in the 1930s was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. The books were subsequently banned in the UK and the USA for nearly thirty years.

Customer Reviews

This is an utterly dire book
I must admit buying and reading this book because of the controversy associated with it and I was seriously disappointed, the fame its incured for being obscene or mysogynistic MUST be what makes it sell.

It is a rambling, stream of consciousness style piece of writing which you can easily afford to skip entire chapters, infact read the first and last five pages and you arent at a loss for content or comprehension of what is going or the writer is attempting to convey to reader.

In truth, matters of taste or literary pretension aside, this is not an easy or engaging read at all, you'll find as good life story or erotic content in blogs and that's saying something. If you are interested in erotic biography or fiction Anis Nin is a far better bet and more life affirming for sure.

not bad, not bad
im not going to write a serious review because im only a kid. i would just like to know why the person who gave one star thinks that something so bad is capable of producing depression - surely it has some power over you? it did for me; i felt almost sucidal after reading just some of this book when i was only seventeen, so be warned, there's a darkness to this text like no other i've experienced before, but it's because it's real. im reading it again now and im in love with it, the writing draws you in so that time can pass without you even realising. if it's actually the worst book you've ever read that's an achievment.

Vital
I read this book, having seen reviews on other sites, and having read Henry and June by Anais Nin and some of her other novels. People had made comments that this book changed their life, and their way of looking at the world. I found it liberating. There are moments of clarity which strike resonance and truly make you stand back and revalue the accepted. There is a review on this site that calls this book disgusting. They missed the point. By a long way. There is an energy and vitality to Millers writing that is infectious, and quite simply, brilliant.