Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grafton
Date Published: 1973-03-22
ISBN-13:9780586018866ISBN:0586018867
Description: Fair. The cover has been creased a fair amount. This is a mass market paperback copy. Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Avon
Date Published: 1945
Description: Very Good. VeryGood, No creases, acidic browning, no real problems, overall general touch of wear (Edition: First Edition)...All books are packaged with care to protect the corners. Ships same or next bussness day. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, NY
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780811201063ISBN:0811201066
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Cover is slightly scuffed, back cover is a little wavy, no sign of water damage though. No creasing on spine. Nice overall condition. Cover has been cropped at the top a little too short from the factory read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 1970-10-01
ISBN-13:9780811201063ISBN:0811201066
Description: New. No jacket as issued. Unread copy with very slight shelf wear. We ship 6 days a week, generally within 24 hours; single CDs and DVDs upgraded to 1st class! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions, New York
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good-. 12mo, 292, Trade paperback. Wear to edges/corners. Bottom corner back cover has a stain. Prev. owner's name/address front endpaper (this was Ted Kooser's copy). read more
Binding: 3rd ptg
Publisher: New DirectionsPr #302, NY
Date Published: 1945, 1970
Description: Skyscraper & Shack Cover Art. Good+Cond. 5x8" Paper Covers 292pg American Bad Dream of the 40s....Includes Several Photos Of Miller & Other Art. read more
Binding: 4th ptg
Publisher: New DirectionsPr #302, NY
Date Published: 1945, 1970
Description: Skyscraper & Shack Cover Art. Good+Cond. 5x8" Paper Covers 292pg American Bad Dream of the 40s....Includes Several Photos Of Miller & Other Art. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions
Date Published: 1970-06-01
ISBN-13:9780811201063ISBN:0811201066
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780811201063. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corpor
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780811201063ISBN:0811201066
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Directions, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1970
ISBN-13:9780811201063ISBN:0811201066
Description: Very Good. Sixteenth printing. NDP302. Very good plus unread copy with slight shelfwear. 292 pp. read more
Edition: 1st English Ed
Binding: Blue/silver.
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London
Date Published: 1947
Description: Hardcover No DJ. Silver letters oxidized at spine. Owner name. Good. Octavo, 292 p., Miller's ascerbic view of America as he travelled around by automobile. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions Publishing, New York
Date Published: 1945
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book is tight & clean/unmarked-barely read, DJ has a bright appearance with light edgeware & No price clip-a very nice book! read more
Description: Good. 1945 Avon mass market paperback-a sweet orange and purple cover-single crease on binding-slight staining to page edge-otherwise cover fine-binding strong contents clean-this is a lovely vintage collectible-enjoy. read more
Description: NEW YORK NEW DIRECTIONS BOOK 1945 292pp DUSTJACKET HARDCOVER, GRAY WITH BLUE TITLES ON SPINE. 2ND ISSUE (PRINTED PHOTO'S) DECORATIVE EP'S, DJ WITH MINOR SHELFWEAR, PRIOR OWNER'S SIGNATURE ON HALF-TITLE VG/VG. read more
Edition: 2nd edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions, NY
Date Published: 1945
Description: VG book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). Bright book. $3.50 DJ price. Gray boards with printed photos, in 1st ed DJ with 4 book reviews on back. DJ w minor edgewear. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Heinemann, London
Date Published: 1962
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 264pp. Green cloth hardback with dw, jacket has light edge wear, otherwise very good, bright copy. A collection of Miller's essays on America. read more
"I found this to be a weak interpretation of what should be an epic road trip. There are wonderful moments of truthfulness, but for the most part the tone makes it seem like a stretch for a paycheck. I don't believe that a man as brazen as Mr. Miller would continue a journey of this sort for such a long amount of time if he really hated it so. Why would he make this trip, come to these conclusions, and then retire in a country that banned his capstone works? He acts like he is making objective observations, but his descriptions American life are so emotive that he makes me feel like a fool for ever doubting him. That's how I know he's up to no good! The Tropic series is full of beauty and mystery, but this seems like he was starving in a public library scheming up ways to drum up some cash. As much as I dislike this book, I will admit that he noticed our throw-away culture before most people would have defined the beginning period: I have always heard that it was September of '45 when everyone came back from the war with money in their pockets. We got the suburbs, and all the throw away convinces that came with them... Perhaps he was trying to write a book as throw-away as the society he found. If this was his intent -this man is a genius!"
"I enjoy the way Miller pieces together bits of prose to create an intertwined journey through not only the landscape of the United States but the culture we have developed throughout this nation. It is at once both amazing and depressing.
I was refreshed to realize that for over 100 years at least people like Henry Miller have been looking for the root cause of what is wrong with us. We have collectively done many great things and are blessed with an amazing land of resources and yet not only do we readily rest on our laurels of luck, we trash the very source of that dumb luck. The Grand Canyon chapter points brilliantly to that.
I thought it interesting as well to discover little has changed since the 1930s. Literally. The story in Chicago could have happened today, as a matter of fact I've lived through it myself. Amazing!
One of my truly favorite works from Henry Miller. I recommend this to anyone interested in culture as seen through the eyes of an expatriate communicated with the color of raw language Miller is so well known for."
""Everything worth saying about the American way of life I could put in thirty pages. Topographically the country is magnificent--and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak."
A good quote to sum of the gist of reading this book. I thought I would get tired of reading Miller's criticisms of America, but I found his insights dead-on mostly, even despite the fact that this book was originally published in the 1940's. It's similar to Umberto's Eco's America in conception, but like Celine in terms of themes."
"i think this is my favorite miller...he rambles, to be sure, but he's rambling about the america we all love to hate. i much prefer this to the sexus plexus nexus messes, which have moments of brilliance, but....damn dude, get an editor."
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