Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were sewer-written by dirty-fingered authors for dirty-minded readers. We aren't going to further this game by giving publicity to such authors and their titles." This week the Trib printed a revised list of bestsellers from which two titles had been scrubbed. The missing works: Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's steamy bedroom-and-gutter account of his expatriate years in France; and The Carpetbaggers, Harold Robbins' blatantly biological study of Hollywood's seams...
...Tropic of Cancer, Miller...
...Tropic of Cancer, Miller...
...Tropic of Cancer, Miller (5) / 8. The Last of the Just...
...scrofulous French novel on grey paper with blunt type."* as Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer might well be described, has now turned up in U.S. bookstores clad in a clean collegiate jacket, tailored at $7.50 by Grove Press, intellectual outfitters to the offbeat, the off-color and the off-limits (in 1959 Grove issued the unabridged Lady Chatterley's Lover). The publishers have so much confidence in Miller's notoriety that they paid the author $50,000 in advance and dumped a 30,000 printing into hospitable bookstores (Scribner and Doubleday, among others, are holdouts) weeks...