Quiet Days in Clichy

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A dazzling novella from one of the most daring American authors Tender and nostalgic, Quiet Days in Clichy is a celebration of love, art, and the bohemian life, written in the early 1930s when Miller was an obscure, penniless young writer in Paris. Tracing the early days of his long friendship with Alfred Perles and his escapades at the Club Melody brothel, Miller describes a period that would shape his entire life and oeuvre.

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Henry Miller (1891-1980) is one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. His best-known novels include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (Sexus, 1949, Plexus, 1953, and Nexus, 1959), all published in France and banned in the US and the UK until 1964. He is widely recognised as an irreverent, risk-taking writer who redefined the novel and made the link between the European avant-garde and the American Beat generation.