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Quiet days in Clichy

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'Here, even if I had a thousand dollar in my pocket, I know of no sight which could arouse in me the feeling of ecstasy'Looking back to Henry Miller's bohemian life in 1930s Paris, when he was an obscure, penniless writer, Quiet Days in Clichy is a love letter to a city.

As he describes nocturnal wanderings through shabby Montmartre streets, caf s and bars, sexual liaisons and volatile love affairs, Miller brilliantly evokes a period that would shape his entire life and oeuvre. 'His writing is flamboyant, torrential, chaotic, treacherous, and dangerous' Ana s Nin

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Product Details
Penguin Classics
014139918X / 9780141399188
eBook (EPUB)
813.52
04/02/2016
England
English
Classics
128 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed. Originally published: Paris: Olympia Press, 1956.