{"product_id":"9781462828869","title":"Doing It With the Cosmos: Henry Miller's Big Sur Struggle for Love Beyond Sex","description":"\u003cp\u003eDOING IT WITH THE COSMOS:  HENRY MILLER'S BIG SUR STRUGGLE FOR LOVE BEYOND SEX explores the evolving pantheistic vision and agonizing personal relationships of this rogue elephant of American literature.   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eAfter years of exclusive conversations with people who knew Miller when he lived in Big Sur, the author concludes that, contrary to a popular mindset, Miller was not an apostle of gratuitous playboy sex.  On the contrary, his books detail the man's tortuous efforts to integrate \"impulsive urges that were wholly beyond control\" into a higher, more spiritual, form of love that may, or may not, include sex.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eHis message:  \"We don't have to make [the earth] a paradise.  It is one.  We have only to make   \u003cbr\u003eourselves fit to inhabit it ... Love is not a game, it's a state of being.\"  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThis book is a unique introduction to one of America's most controversial literary greats, tracing his spiritual development from its shaky beginnings in Paris through its expansion in  Greece to its culmination in Big Sur.    \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThe book not only serves as a manual of happiness, it is a caveat for people planning to play house together.  Miller's ultimtely joyful Nature wisdom, is an antidote for what ails an entire generation of restive, sex and violence-inundated Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141093310704,"sku":"9781462828869","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462828869_p0.jpg?v=1763678450","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462828869","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}