The brave wild coast: a year with Henry Miller

[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 co...

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Main Author: Crews, Judson (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, Calif. Dumont Press 1997
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:[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 [The book contains] a previously unpublished ten-page letter from Henry, advising the [author] in his first attempt at a novel.
Physical Description:294 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0962443190

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