Synopses & Reviews
"In this engrossing biography Ferguson measures the cheerful amoralist of and 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 'unique...and necessary literary figure,' a popular American sage....Richly rewarding." --
Synopsis
The only biography Henry Miller ever wanted was the one he himself wrote in the brash, life-affirming fictions of , , and . But Robert Ferguson's 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.
Synopsis
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 Ferguson's 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.