{"product_id":"moloch-paperback","title":"Moloch - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this, his first extant novel, Henry Miller made his earliest full-fledged attempt at autobiographical fiction, a literary form he was later to perfect in Paris.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncovered along with Crazy Cock in 1988 by Miller biographer Mary V. Dearborn, \u003ci\u003eMoloch \u003c\/i\u003eemerged 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 homelife, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrutal and shocking, sometimes awkward and rambling, \u003ci\u003eMoloch \u003c\/i\u003edisplays Miller's first steps toward the motif that he was to make his hallmark: the scathingly direct hero striving for an unflinching view of himself in a world created out of the writer's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Miller\u003c\/b\u003e was born in New York City on December 26, 1891. Miller briefly attended City College of New York, but abandoned his university studies after only two months. In 1930 Miller traveled to Paris, where he stayed until 1940. During this period he was financed by his lover and fellow writer, Anaïs Nin, who helped him obtain a first printing of the celebrated and controversial \u003ci\u003eTropic of Cancer\u003c\/i\u003e (1934); the book was banned in the United States at the time Grove Press printed it in 1961, which promptly initiated a costly, but successful, Supreme Court case to overrule the ban.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther notable works of Miller include \u003ci\u003eTropic of Capricorn\u003c\/i\u003e (1939), \u003ci\u003eThe Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus\u003c\/i\u003e (1949), \u003ci\u003ePlexus \u003c\/i\u003e(1953), \u003ci\u003eNexus \u003c\/i\u003e(1960), \u003ci\u003eBlack Spring\u003c\/i\u003e (1936), and \u003ci\u003eCrazy Cock\u003c\/i\u003e (1960).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Miller died in 1980, in Pacific Palisades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.25 x 5.47 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 26, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46153918415034,"sku":"9780802133724","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/5727\/8650\/files\/kG-QPbtnXw9780802133724.webp?v=1783939407","url":"https:\/\/thebookloversatlas.com\/products\/moloch-paperback","provider":"The Book Lover's Atlas","version":"1.0","type":"link"}