Feeling trapped in Brooklyn and his marriage with the volatile Mona, he becomes more interested in her extravagant friend, Stasia. After a complicated menage a trois with Mona and Stasia, he is abandoned by both women and decides to sail for Paris to begin his resurrection as a writer.
The scandalous autobiographical trilogy, which was banned for 30 years in the US and the UK, published for the first time in "Penguin Modern Classics", with innovative covers.