The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (New Directions Paperbook)

The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (New Directions Paperbook)

<p><strong>His stories and essays celebrate those rare individuals (famous and obscure) whose creative resilience and mere existence oppose the mechanization of minds and souls.</strong></p> In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like―to get to the roots of the American nature and experience. He set out on a journey that was to last three years, visiting many sections of the country and making friends of all descriptions. <em>The Air-Conditioned Nightmare</em> is the result of that odyssey.