Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Cancer Paperback – January 1, 1980 by Henry Miller (Author), Karl Shapiro (Introduction), US.

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."

Product details

• Format Paperback | 318 pages
• Dimensions 137 x 207 x 25.4mm | 376g
• Publication date 06 Jan 1994
• Publisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• ISBN10 0802131786
• ISBN13 9780802131782