Cities of the Interior
Alan Swallow Press
)Illustrated by Ian Hugo
Cities of the Interior is a novel sequence published in one volume containing the five books of
A Spy in the House of Love and Seduction of the Minotaur. This combined volume was first published, by the author, in 1959. Its central figures are three women resembling different aspects of the author, and in some superficial ways June Miller. In some of the books they interact with each other, with a painter resembling Henry Miller
and with South Americans resembling her friend, the Peruvian radical Gonzalo Moré, and his wife Helba. Most of the content is taken from her diaries, polished and thinly disguised.
It was followed by her last novel, Collages.
Gore Vidal was impressed by both Ladders to Fire and Children of the Albatross, and played a role in their publication.[1]
References
- JSTOR 24780323.
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