In 1935 a young Englishman living on Corfu wrote enthusiastically to a middle-aged Brooklynite who had just published a succes de scandale in Paris: āā¦
Tropic [of Cancer] turns the corner into a new life which has regained its bowels.ā Henry Miller, realizing that in Lawrence Durrell he had hooked his ideal reader, responded: āYouāre the first Britisher whoās written me an intelligent letter about the book.ā Thus began a correspondence that ended only with Millerās death in 1980ānearly 1,000,000 words later.Ā
The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80Ā contains an extensive and representative selection of the total correspondence. Almost half of the present volume has never been published before, including some recently recovered ālostā letters; in addition, many passages expurgated from letters published in 1963 have been restored. Editor Ian S. MacNiven of the State University of New York, Maritime College, is quite right to regard the Durrell-Miller correspondence as a dual biography of the creative lives of two of this centuryās great literary iconoclasts, a biography āAt once as serious as Schopenhauer and as winning as wine.ā
This book title, The Durrell-Miller Letters (1935-1980), ISBN: 9780811217309, by Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller, Ian S. MacNiven, published by New Directions (September 19, 1998) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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