Rewritten by the author fifteen years after its initial creation, Quiet Days in Clichy shows a different side of Miller from some of his more famous works such as Tropic of Capricorn, as he depicts the bohemian life he enjoyed in his younger years in Paris with a fellow writer.

Miller characteristically focuses on the seamier side of Paris, its seedy world of cheap sex, booze and destitution. The work captures the free-love spirit of a generation, and sheds light on the formative years of one of the most controversial writers of the twentieth century.

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'American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done.' – Lawrence Durrell

'I like Henry Miller. I think he's the greatest American writer' – Bob Dylan

'There is nothing like Henry Miller when he gets rolling... One has to take the English language back to Marlowe and Shakespeare before encountering a wealth of imagery equal in intensity... a wildwater of prose, a cataract, a volcano, a torrent, an earthquake... a writer finally like a great athlete, a phenomenon of an avatar of literary energy.' –
Norman Mailer

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