3750 Book Club Meet for March 2023
3750 Book Club Meet for March 2023
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin (Preface)
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1) by Henry Miller | Goodreads
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.”
Join us for a lively discussion of this book on Tuesday March 21st @ 7:00pm in the Grace Street Lobby. Please RSVP Todd Cannon 4B at toddcannon@comcast.net or 312-841-9795 if you wish to attend.
