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"This is an odd little book. Brenda Venus is/was a very minor actress of exotic good looks (she played a Native American trainer of Clint Eastwood the mountain climber in "The Eiger Sanction") born in Biloxi, Mississippi who managed to initiate a correspondence with Henry Miller very late in his life -- in the late 1970s. This book reprints his "love letters" to her. In view of the fact that she was so much younger and physically engaged elsewhere, this was largely an affair of the mind. Miller is alternately poetic, majestic, and vulgar. The "conversation" is pretty one sided: I wish she had included her own letters to him. The only time some interesting sparks fly is when they meet and she asks him some hard questions about his depiction of women in his books, particularly his wife June, and he explodes with rage. As I say, an odd little book that teeters between historic/literary interest and questionable exploitation."
David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Romance
Yes
job/profession:
- writer
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 60's-90's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Century:
- 1960's-1970's
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Book makes you feel?
- thoughtful
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- touching of anatomy
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- love/sex
- decency
- selfishness
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Autobiography?
Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 0-25% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 51-75% of book
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