Books
July, 1963
Henry Miller began his writing life with a three-book salvo. Black Spring (Grove, $5), written in 1936 between the two Tropics, reaches this country last. Perhaps because it's the weakest. Like the others, it celebrates Miller's escape from marriage and money-grubbing to Left Bankruptcy, skipping verbally between his love of France and of freedom and his hatred of everything in America but his Brooklyn boyhood. The first section, The Fourteenth Ward, is the best in the book -- a splashy memory c...
