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The controversial erotic and hilarious companion to the legendary Tropic ofCancer in a smart new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A riotous andexplosive mixture of joys and frustrations Tropic of Capricorn chroniclesMillers early life in New York from his repressive Brooklyn childhood spentamongst a galaxy of screwballs to frantic hilarious years of deadend jobsand innumerable erotic adventures. Irreverent and ironic Tropic of Capricornis both a comic portrait of the irrepressible Miller himself and a scathingattack on respectable America the very foundations of which he hoped toshatter. The publication of Tropic of Capricorn and its sistervolume Tropic ofCancer in Paris in the 1930s was hailed by Samuel Beckett as a momentous eventin the history of modern writing. The books were subsequently banned in the UKand the USA for nearly thirty years. «
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