Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortlessly from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and New York, he captures like no one ...
Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac's early classics, On The Road. Centering around the tempestuous breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou Fox—two denizens of the 1950s San Francisco underground—The Subterraneans is a tale of dark alleys and smoky rooms, of artists, visionaries, and ad ...
This tender and nostalgic work dates from the same period as Tropic of Cancer (1934). It is a celebration of love, art, and the Bohemian life at a time when the world was simpler and slower, and Miller an obscure, penniless young writer in Paris. Whether discussing the early days of his long friendship with Alfred Perles or his escapades at the Club Melody brothel, in Quiet Days in Clichy Miller describes a period that would shape his entire lif ...
In his first frankly autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac tells the exhilarating story fo the years when he was writing th books that captivated and infuriated the public, restless years of wandering during which he worked as a railway brakeman in California, a steward on a tramp steamer, and a fire lookout on the crest of Desolation Peak in the Cascde Mountains. ...
Konrad Beikircher uber Ovid «Liebeskunst»: Die Schule, die ich in Bozen besuchte, war das Franziskanergymnasium und dieses legte Wert auf Latein und Altgriechisch. Ich gestehe: auch wenn ich kein As war, habe ich beides gerne gemacht. Was mich allerdings damals immer schon belustigt hat, war dieses holzerne Altphilologen-Deutsch, in dem die Ubersetzungen dahergestelzt kamen. Mit dem Abitur war das naturlich erst mal vergessen, bis ich mit zuneh ...
Die junge Australierin Cassandra erbt von ihrer Gro?mutter Nell ein verlassenes Cottage in der englischen Grafschaft Cornwall. Daraufhin beginnt sie sich naher mit der Vergangenheit ihrer Gro?mutter auseinanderzusetzen. Wer war diese Frau? Woher stammte Nell wirklich? Auf den Spuren ihrer Gro?mutter sto?t Cassandra auf das Geheimnis zweier Freundinnen, das seinen Anfang in den Garten von Blackhurst Manor nahm. ...
“I want very much to tell my story. You see, there may not be another story like this in all the world.” So begins the tale of eighty-five-year-old Clara Cabot’s remarkable journey through time and history. Clara relates her life story to a reporter, as she has been eyewitness to the rise and fall of a small Utah town and its nearby military base for sixty years. However, much more than a simple tale of history, Clara’s unique narrative describe ...
Nea, a Chinese Cambodian teenager, has survived the Khmer Rouge only to land in poverty in Texas. Her small family struggles to get by when a miracle occurs. Wealthy and mysterious, Auntie and Uncle write to say they are alive and well, running a Chinese restaurant in Nebraska. As Nea helps pack Hefty bags with meager belongings for a journey into the American Midwest, little does she know their miracle has a dark side. Soon family secrets, smal ...
The final novel from the New York <i>Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Are You Somebody?</i> Like many a modern, well-travelled woman, Rosie has lived a fascinating life, full of adventure and the pleasure of many lovers in her younger years. Now, facing the challenges of middle-age, she finds that the things that defined her most–work, love, independence–begin to fail her. She comes home to Ireland to care for her elder ...
