As Tony learns the truth-that Hildred and Vanya are indeed lovers-the tale descends into their sexual souls. His bourgeois upbringing and inclinations are shaken when Hildred announces that her dear friend Vanya, a woman taken with the arts and men’s clothes, is coming to live with them. Dearborn, Crazy Cock is the tale of Tony Bring, as Miller calls himself in the book, a writer bewildered by his independent wife, Hildred, and the sordid world of Greenwich Village in the 1920s. Rediscovered in 1988 by Miller biographer Mary V. Purging himself of this pain through the writing of Crazy Cock helped Miller to discover his true voice a few years later in Tropic of Cancer. Begun in 1927, and originally titled Lovely Lesbians, Crazy Cock sprang from his anguish over June’s love affair with a mysterious woman called Jean Kronski. In 1930 Henry Miller moved from New York to Paris, leaving behind-at least temporarily-his tempestuous marriage to June Smith and a novel that he had fully expected to be his masterpiece.
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