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Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

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ISBN-10: 0811201074

ISBN-13: 9780811201070

Edition: 1957

Authors: Henry Miller

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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 touch for comedy. But this is also a serious book'”the…    
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Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 1957
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 1/17/1957
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.10" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

RAYMOND DURGNATnbsp;(1932-2002)nbsp;was the author of many groundbreaking books about the cinema,nbsp;among them Films andnbsp;Feelings (1967), A Mirrornbsp;for England (1970), Sexual Alienation in the Cinema (1971),nbsp; The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock and Jean Renoir (both 1974) and a study of WR: Mysteries of the Organism in the BFI Film Classics series (1999).nbsp; Educated at the University of Cambridge and the Slade School of Art, he went on to hold teaching positions at St Martins School of Art, the Royal College of Art and the University of East London, as well as visiting professorships at Columbia University, the University of California and Dartmouth College. nbsp;…