Moloch, or, This gentile world / Henry Miller ; introduction by Mary V. Dearborn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.

Genre:

Fiction.

Autobiographical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xv, 266 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Moloch.

This gentile world.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, 1992.

Summary:

Uncovered along with Crazy Cock in 1988 by Miller biographer Mary V. Dearborn, Moloch emerged from the misery of Miller's years at Western Union and from the squalor of his first marriage. Set in the rapidly changing New York City of the early twenties, its hero is the rough-and-tumble Dion Moloch, a man filled with anger and despair. Trapped in a demeaning job, oppressed by an acrimonious home life, Moloch escapes to the streets only to be assaulted by a world he despises even more - a Brooklyn transformed into a shrill medley of ethnic sights, sounds, and smells. The antagonized Moloch strikes out blindly at everything he hates, battling against a world whose hostility threatens to overwhelm and destroy him.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has Grove Weidenfeld press release laid in.

ISBN:

0802114199

9780802114198

080213372X

9780802133724

OCLC:

25552551