num_pages: 320
description: A riotous and explosive mixture of joys and frustrations, Tropic of Capricorn chronicles Miller's early life in New York, from his repressive Brooklyn childhood spent amongst 'a galaxy of screwballs' to frantic, hilarious years of dead-end jobs and innumerable erotic adventures. Irreverent and ironic, Tropic of Capricorn is both a comic portrait of the irrepressible Miller himself and a scathing attack on respectable America, the very foundations of which he hoped to shatter. The publication of Tropic of Capricorn and its sister-volume Tropic of Cancer in Paris in the 1930s was hailed by Samuel Beckett as 'a momentous event in the history of modern writing'. The books were subsequently banned in the UK and the USA for nearly thirty years.
language: English
title: Tropic of Capricorn
titlecomplete: Tropic of Capricorn
genres: American, Literary Fiction, Fiction, The United States Of America, Literature, Erotica, Sexuality, Classics, Novels, Banned Books
ratings_count: 19972
places: Brooklyn, New York City, New York
series: Tropic
publisher: HarperCollins Flamingo