Tropic of Cancer

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  [This book] unabashedly depicts [the author's] escapades as a down-and-out writer in Paris during the early 1930s, "bumming around" Montparnasse with a colorful, earthly, and rebellious group of expatriates and artists....Published in France in 1934, [the book] was banned from the United States unti ... (continue)

  [This book] unabashedly depicts [the author's] escapades as a down-and-out writer in Paris during the early 1930s, "bumming around" Montparnasse with a colorful, earthly, and rebellious group of expatriates and artists....Published in France in 1934, [the book] was banned from the United States until 1961, when its printing led to the overturning of America's obscenity laws. Now it is regarded as an American classic.

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  I've owned probably 3 different copies of this book because people keep stealing them/borrowing them indefiintely but I refuse to part with it. Basically, what I can say, I've already said in my review of Black Spring. This man's words are powerful.

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  Jason Fawcett said on Aug 13, 2007 | Add your feedback

• best English-language novel ever

  What a beautiful author!

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  Desertersongs said on Feb 15, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• A few chapters in, I got the distinct feeling that all the whorish phraseology was nothing more than a child's attempt to see just how far they could push their parents.

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  Coilette said on Mar 12, 2008 | Add your feedback

• Abandoned

  one of the few books that i actually abandoned... didn't find it too amusing.. then again, it could just be me.

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  ahka said on Aug 29, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 318 Pages
• Edition: Reprint
• ISBN-10: 0802131786
• ISBN-13: 9780802131782
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Pub date: Jan 06, 1994
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
• In other languages: other languages Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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