Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first
published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section
of California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of
a place one of the most colorful in the U.S. and of the extraordinary people
Miller knew there: writers (& writers who didn't write), mystics seeking truth
in meditation (& the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or celebrity),
sophisticated children & adult innocents; geniuses, cranks & the unclassifiable.
Henry Miller writes with a buoyancy & brimming energy that are infectious. He
has a fine