Nexus

✍ Scribed by Miller, Henry

• Book ID: 110460170
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 685 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780007383672

✦ Synopsis

The story of Miller's bizarre second marriage and its development into an extraordinary and legendary ménage à trois â?? the final installment of the â??Rosy Curifixionâ?? trilogy. 'Goodbye, dear Pocohantas! Goodbye, P.T. Barnum! Goodbye, Street of Early Sorrows and may I never set eyes on you again!' When Henry Miller left America for Paris in the 1930s to lead the life of a literary bohemian, he called this death of his former existence and his resurrection as a writer a 'rosy crucifixion'. This dramatic transformation provided the leitmotif for some of Miller's finest writing, embodying everything he felt about self-liberation and the true life of the spirit. 'Nexus', the final volume in the 'Rosy Crucifixion' trilogy, is a fictionalised account of his last, tempestuous few months in New York. Trapped in a bizarre ménage à trois with his volatile actress wife, Mona, and her eccentric lover, Stasia, Miller's life descends into violent and passionate anarchy. Demoralised,...