Aller retour New York / Henry Miller ; introduction by George Wickes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Revived modern classic

A Revived modern classic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Miller, Henry, 1891-1980--Travel--New York (State)--New York.

Miller, Henry.

Perlès, Alfred.

Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.

Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence.

Authors, American.

Travel.

New York (State)--New York.

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Manners and customs.

Miller, Henry, 1891-1980--Correspondence.

Perlès, Alfred--Correspondence.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Records and correspondence.

Autobiographies.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 77 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions, 1993.

Summary:

Aller Retour New York is truly vintage Henry Miller, written during his most creative period, between Tropic of Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1939). Miller always said that his best writing was in his letters, and this unbuttoned missive to his friend Alfred Perlès is not only his longest (nearly 80 pages!) but his best--an exuberant, rambling, episodic, humorous account of his visit to New York in 1935 and return to Europe aboard a Dutch ship. Despite its high repute among Miller devotees, Aller Retour New York has never been easy to find. It was first brought out in Paris in 1935 in a limited edition, and a second edition, "Printed for Private Circulation Only," was issued in the United States ten years later. It is now available in paperback as a Revived Modern Classic, with an introduction by George Wickes that illuminates the people and personal circumstances which inform Aller Retour New York.

ISBN:

0811212262

9780811212267

OCLC:

26853956