Crazy Cock

In 1930 Henry Miller moved from New York to Paris leaving behind at leasttemporarily his tempestuous marriage to June Smith and a novel that hadsprung from hi... » 

In 1930 Henry Miller moved from New York to Paris leaving behind at leasttemporarily his tempestuous marriage to June Smith and a novel that hadsprung from his anguish over her love affair with a mysterious woman named JeanKronski. Begun in 1927 Crazy Cock is the story of Tony Bring a strugglingwriter whose bourgeois inclinations collide with the disordered bohemianism ofhis muchbeloved wife Hildred particularly when her lover Vanya comes tolive with them in their already cramped Greenwich Village apartment. In a worldswirling with violence sex and passion the three struggle with theirdesires inching ever nearer to insanity each unable to break away from thisdangerous and consuming love triangle. «