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1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 24 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Performer |
Narrated by Tom Perkins. |
Summary |
In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place-one of the most colorful in the United States-and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (and writers who did not write), mystics seeking truth in meditation (and the not-so-saintly looking for sex-cults or celebrity), sophisticated children, and adult innocents; geniuses, cranks, and the unclassifiable, like Conrad Moricand, the "Devil in Paradise," who is one of Miller's greatest character studies. Henry Miller writes with a buoyancy and brimming energy that are infectious. He has a fine touch for comedy. But this is also a serious book-the testament of a free spirit who has broken through the restraints and clichés of modern life to find within himself his own kind of paradise. |
System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Added Author |
Perkins, Tom. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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ISBN |
9781977351159 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1977351158 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
Music No. |
MWT12305937 |
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