A perfect match of author and subject, The Devil
at Large is Jong's celebration of Henry Miller's
life -- the ebullience, the contradictions, the humor,
and above all the freedom that defined his life and art.
In a blend of biography, autobiography, scholarship and
polemic, Jong evaluates and charts the life and legacy of
Miller, the archetypical sexualist whose notorious Tropic
of Cancer and subsequent books ultimately changed the
boundaries of literature."What Henry had that others so resented was
wholeness...His exuberance, the happiness that comes
across in his work, was visible in him even when he was
old and ill. The voice he found expressed the abundance
of the man. It was not the sex the puritans hated and
feared. It was the abundance." The Devil at
Large reveals the convictions shared by Jong and
Miller that one must accept dung to have angels, and that
the truest virtue is to be 'on the side of life'.
Reviews:
"If you must limit yourself to one book on
Henry Miller, this is the one"
--Library Journal
Grove Press (1993)
327 pages; paperback
0-8021-3391-6
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