Penguin Modern Classics

''New York is an aquarium ... where there are nothing but hellbenders and lungfish and slimy, snag-toothed groupers and sharks'' In 1935 Henry Miller set off from his adopted home, Paris, to revisit his native land, America. Aller Retour New York , his exuberant, humorous missive to his friend Alfred Perlès describing the trip and his return journey on a Dutch steamer, is filled with vivid reflections on his hellraising antics, showing Miller at the height of his powers. This edition also includes Via Dieppe-Newhaven , his entertaining account of a failed attempt to visit England. ''The greatest American writer'' Bob Dylan