{"product_id":"2026200004954-secondhand-tropic-of-cancer","title":"Tropic Of Cancer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Usual aging signs. Light foxing on block - does not extend internally. small chips on spine of jacket, otherwise fine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark work of autobiographical fiction, Tropic of Cancer chronicles Henry Miller's raw, unfiltered life as a penniless American expatriate navigating the bohemian underworld of 1930s Paris. With savage wit and lyrical intensity, the novel presents a world of poverty, sexual freedom, and artistic obsession through a narrator who refuses every convention of polite society. Miller's prose tears through the boundaries of traditional narrative, blending stream-of-consciousness reflection with visceral, street-level realism to argue that true creative liberation demands a complete rejection of bourgeois comfort and moral pretense. Banned in the United States for decades after its 1934 publication in Paris, the work remains one of the most controversial and influential novels of the twentieth century, celebrated by writers from George Orwell to Norman Mailer. Unapologetic and electrifying, it stands as a defiant manifesto for artistic freedom and the examined, uncompromising life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48755506675931,"sku":"2026200004954-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c53c8854-720d-4a5b-93f5-1382fb26204a.png?v=1778221334","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200004954-secondhand-tropic-of-cancer","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}