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        Tropic Of Cancer


        setting

        Paris, France

        time

        1920s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1934

        page count

        318

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Boris, Henry, Tania, Carl, Irene, young cunts, old cunts, Fillmore

        Rip's impressions

        One of the first novels to ignore sexual morals and boundaries in brilliant prose; an eye opener for the sexually innocent.

        first line

        I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere nor a chair misplaced. We are alone here and we are dead.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

        literary tidbits

        Someone should do a comparison between this novel and Lady Chatterly's Lover, written about the same time, and see which one used the word "cunt" more than the other.

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