The Air-Conditioned Nightmare is a 1945 memoir by Henry Miller about his year-long road trip across the United States in 1940, following his return from nearly a decade living in Paris.
First edition cover, 1945
A 1932 Buick sedan, similar to the car Miller purchased for the trip.
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Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blends character st
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
…The Air-Conditioned Nightmare is a 1945 memoir by Henry Miller about his year-long road trip across the United States in 1940, following his return from nearly a decade living in Paris. Miller was born and raised…
Miller in 1940
Villa Seurat in Paris, where Henry Miller lived
A 1957 watercolor by Miller
Miller (1959)