num_pages: 400
description: Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fifteen years.Big Sur is the portrait of a place one of the most colorful in the U.S. and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (and writers who didn't write), mystics seeking truth in meditation (and the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or celebrity), sophisticated children and adult innocents; geniuses, cranks and the unclassifiable.Henry Miller writes with a buoyancy and brimming energy that are infectious. He has a fine touch for comedy. But this is also a serious book the testament of a free spirit who has broken through the restraints and cliches of modern life to find within himself his own kind of paradise.
language: English
title: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
titlecomplete: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
genres: 20th Century, American, Essays, Art, Travel, Novels, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 3075
publisher: New Directions