Tropic of Capricorn (novel)

Tropic of Capricorn (novel)

Infobox Book
name = Tropic of Capricorn
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image_caption = Cover of a later reprint
author = Henry Miller
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country = United States
language = English
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publisher = Obelisk Press
release_date = 1938
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 367 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = Tropic of Cancer
followed_by =

"Tropic of Capricorn" is a novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938. The novel is a sequel to "Tropic of Cancer", 1934. The novel is set in 1920s New York, where the narrator 'Henry V. Miller' works in the personnel division of the 'Cosmodemonic' telegraph company.

Although the narrator's experiences closely parallel Miller's own time in New York working for the Western Union Telegraph Company, and he shares the author's name, the novel is not pure autobiography. Miller maintains a (somewhat) ironic distance from his narrator's exaggerated misogyny and racism.


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