Moloch: Or, This Gentile World

Moloch: Or, This Gentile World

by Henry Miller
Moloch: Or, This Gentile World

Moloch: Or, This Gentile World

by Henry Miller

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780802133724
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date: 01/26/1994
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.38(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Henry Valentine Miller (1891-1980) was an American author known for breaking existing literary forms and most famous for books like Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, both of which were once banned in the United States. The semi–autobiographical novels delved into themes of sexuality and were considered controversial. Born in New York City and raised in Brooklyn, Miller also lived in Paris, Berlin, the South of France, Greece, as well as Beverly Glen, Big Sur, and Pacific Palisades, California. His other popular books include Black Spring, The Colossus of Maroussi, Nexus, Plexus and Sexus. Henry Miller also wrote literary criticism, travel memoirs, was a successful painter and appeared as himself in several films.

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