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Book · 1934 · Fiction

Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller
Penguin Books, Limited (Penguin Random House) · 336 pages
★ 6.5 editorial score

Miller in Paris, broke and writing about sex and squalor with an appetite nothing in English had matched. Grove Press fought dozens of obscenity suits before the Supreme Court cleared it in 1964.

Genre
Erotic fictionSemi-autobiography
Medium
Novel
Subject
Sexual revolutionSexRelationshipsLiterature
Setting
Paris
Time
1934Depicts Interwar PeriodDepicts 1930s

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