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'This short, erudite and highly coloured account of Miller's creative backstory explores both an extraordinary American life and Miller's 'renegade' American inheritance.' (Robert McCrum, The Observer) 'Turner tells a good story: how Miller's Tropic of Cancer came to be written, came to be banned and came to be an American classic.' (New York Times Book Review, front cover, Editor's Choice) 'An entertaining and skillful evocation of the time when Miller's memoir of bottom-feeding American expats in Paris was known as the dirtiest book in the world.' (Lee Sandlin, Wall Street Journal)

An entertaining and skillful evocation of the time when Miller's memoir of bottom-feeding American expats in Paris was known as the dirtiest book in the world. -Lee Sandlin, Wall Street Journal -- Lee Sandlin Wall Street Journal Turner tells a good story: how Miller's Tropic of Cancer came to be written, came to be banned and came to be an American classic. -New York Times Book Review, front cover, Editor's Choice New York Times Book Review This short, erudite and highly coloured account of Miller's creative backstory explores both an extraordinary American life and Miller's 'renegade' American inheritance. -Robert McCrum, The Observer -- Robert McCrum The Observer Tropic of Cancer was indeed groundbreaking, and as Turner demonstrates so well, the novel stirred such controversy ... that it helped pave the way for the liberation of American letters. -Ron Antonucci, Booklist -- Ron Antonucci Booklist

An entertaining and skillful evocation of the time when Miller's memoir of bottom-feeding American expats in Paris was known as the dirtiest book in the world. -Lee Sandlin, Wall Street Journal -- Lee Sandlin * Wall Street Journal * Turner tells a good story: how Miller's Tropic of Cancer came to be written, came to be banned and came to be an American classic. -New York Times Book Review, front cover, Editor's Choice * New York Times Book Review * This short, erudite and highly coloured account of Miller's creative backstory explores both an extraordinary American life and Miller's 'renegade' American inheritance. -Robert McCrum, The Observer -- Robert McCrum * The Observer * Tropic of Cancer was indeed groundbreaking, and as Turner demonstrates so well, the novel stirred such controversy . . . that it helped pave the way for the liberation of American letters. -Ron Antonucci, Booklist -- Ron Antonucci * Booklist *

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Frederick Turner is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Into the Heart of Life: Henry Miller at One Hundred. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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