Autobiographical work, winner of several awards for exceptional literary value. A story of misery, violence, sex and death in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The honest confession of a man torn by self-doubt.
He is the former rush leader of the Chicago Stars rugby team. She is trying to be a successful owner of an investigative agency. Her first job? Follow him. Let's just say she's not doing well. Not good at all...
Ferguson sensibly paints a portrait of Henry Miller, a descendant of German punks from Brooklyn, born on the threshold of the last decade of the 19th century, and he published the book in 1991, on the centenary of the author's birth.