Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Miller
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Journal
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Diary
- Subjects: 1950’s, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, 1940’s, California
- Locales: Big Sur, CA
In 1944, Miller settled in what he called “my first real home in America,” a cabin on Partington Ridge, located in the rugged beauty of the Big Sur region of the California coast. He lived there for the following twelve years, and in Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, he tried to combine his vision of an ideal community with the somewhat less perfect situation of his life. In a painfully honest and often mundane report of his day-to-day life as a writer, parent, counselor, and local explorer, Miller produced what Norman Mailer calls a “wise record” of psychic...
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