The brave wild coast
Subtitle: a year with Henry Miller
By: by Judson Crews ; edited by Jefferson P. Selth.
Contributors: Selth, Jefferson P., 1930-
Publisher: Dumont Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Miller, Henry, 1891- -- Homes and haunts -- California -- Big Sur.; Miller, Henry, 1891- -- Friends and associates.; Crews, Judson -- Friends and associates.; Miller, Marta Lepska.; White, Emil H.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; California -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Big Sur (Calif.) -- Biography.
Description: [This book] is the first eye-witness account of Henry Miller's sojourn on the California coast - the years of The Rosy Crucifixion - and of his marriage with his third wife, Marta Lepska. In episodes sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious, [the book] also show[s] a post-bohemian, pre-hippie community practicing an ethic of freedom - much of it centered around Murphy's Hot Springs, now the heart of Esalen Institute, of which [the author] was briefly the caretaker.... [The book contains] a previously unpublished ten-page letter from Henry, advising the [author] in his first attempt at a novel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue (December 1943); title: Anderson Creek 1 (January-May 1945); title: Anderson Creek 2 (August-December 1945); title: Lucia Lodge (December 1945); title: Anderson Creek 3 (May 1946); title: Two epilogues (July 1946; November 1980); title: Appendix: After leaving the coast; Testimony of Henry Miller; Testimony of Marta Lepska; Testimony of Anais Nin.