Henry Miller

In This Engrossing Biography Ferguson Measures The Cheerful Amoralist Of Tropic Of Cancer And The Rosy Crucifixion Against The Guilt-Ridden Insecure Male In Revolt Against His Bourgeois Brooklyn Family. . . . The Miller In These Pages Is Neither The Macho Bully Portrayed By Feminists Nor The Adolescent Sexual Philosopher Dismissed By The Academic Establishment But A UniqueAnd Necessary Literary Figure A Popular American Sage.Richly Rewarding. Publishers Weekly The Only Biography Henry Miller Ever Wanted Was The One He Himself Wrote In The Brash Life-Affirming Fictions Of The Tropic Of Capricorn The Tropic Of Cancer And The Rosy Crucifixion. But Robert FergusonS New Biography Tells A Different Tale; For Where The Novels Are Sexually Explicit And Brutally FrankWoundingly So To Those Close To MillerThey Are Also The Fantasies Of A Man Escaping From His Past And From Himself.