Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic
of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey
from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid
flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortlessly from Virgil
to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor
swirl of Paris and New York, he captures like no one else the blending of people
and the cities they inhabit.