Sexus by Henry Miller
The first book of a trilogy of novels known collectively as "The Rosy Crucifixion". It is autobiographical and tells the story of Miller's first tempestuous marriage and his relentless sexual exploits in New York. The other books are "Plexus" and "Nexus".Henry Miller was born in 1891 in Brooklyn, New York. In 1940 he went to live in Paris and for the next ten years he migled with impoverished expatriates and bohemian Parisians, including Brassai, Artaud and Anais Nin, with whom he had a much-documented affair. His first published book, Tropic of Cancer, appeared in 1934 from the Obelisk Press in Paris. It was followed five years later by its sister volume, Tropic of Capricorn. Sexually explicit, unashamedly candid, these books electrified the European avant-garde, received praise frmo Eliot, Pound, Beckett and Durrell, but were almost universally banned outside France.
Miller returned to America in 1940, settling in Big Sur, California. Here he wrote the ‘Rosy Crucifixion’ trilogy – Sexus, Plexus and Nexus. In 1961, after a lengthy legal battle, Tropic of Cancer was finally published in the States and in England in 1963. Miller became a household name, hailed by the Sixties counterculture as a phrophet of freedom and sexual revolution.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006547044 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006547044 |
| Title | Sexus |
| Author | Henry Miller |
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| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1993-12-13 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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