Tropic of CapricornA story of sexual and spiritual awakening, Tropic of Capricorn shocked readers when it was published in 1939. A mixture of fiction and autobiography, it is the story of Henry V. Miller who works for the Cosmodemonic telegraph company in New York in the 1920s and tries to write the most important work of literature that was ever published. Tropic of Capricorn paints a dazzling picture of the life of the writer and of New York City between the wars: the

this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays

Irresistible stuff' TRACY BORMAN

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has returned from the city and fallen in love precipitating a clash of the generations and reviving long-buried memories

Robert trails the streets of Manhattan guided by Terri

Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover

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But it was Alleyns wife Troy who knew the Jampot best: she had shared close quarters with him on the tiny pleasure steamer Zodiac on a cruise along the peaceful rivers of Constable country

impassive shapeshifters marshal beasts of enormous size and startling intelligence

Their only hope lies with Coroner Jenny Cooper