Paul Bowles

A Distant Episode contains the best of Paul Bowles's short stories, as selected by the author. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Jay McInerney.Author: Paul BowlesISBN-10: 0061137383ISBN-13:...

Paul Bowles reads this classic suite of Moroccan kif stories that he recorded in Tangier, Morocco, in the Fall of 1978. Previously released as a 2 LP recording in 1981, and long sold out, these stories are now available again in this audiobook format....

These are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a possible...

Exploring the life of the world-shaping system of capitalism and the writings of leading thinkers, this book gives an account of recent developments of capitalism, including the impact of the global Climate Crisis, questions around democracy and capitalism, and the impact of COVID-19.Author: Paul...

Born in 1936 in Valparaiso, Chile, to a family of ranchers, Claudio Bravo studied for only three years with a master of the Romantic school before he achieved success as a portrait painter at a very young age. After moving to Madrid in 1961,...

"The Library of America has made it easier for readers to enjoy Bowles's exotic literary harvest." -- The Columbus Dispatch Paul Bowles was a composer, writer, and an American expatriate who spent most of the last five decades of his life in Tangier. According...

Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is not only just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering...

Paul Bowles's classic collection of short stories, now available in a a deluxe paperback edition--part of Ecco's Art of the Story series “All the tales are a variety of detective story,” wrote Bowles of this, his first short story collection, “in which the reader...

This extraordinary collection of correspondence by Paul Bowles spans eight decades and provides an evolving portrait of an artist renowned for his privacy. From his earliest extant letter, written at the age of four, to his precocious effusions to Aaron Copeland and to Gertrude...

In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption...

In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption...

In this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing experience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader...

In this intense and brilliant book, Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing experience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader...

Paul Bowles's classic collection of short stories, available in a deluxe paperback edition--part of Ecco's Art of the Story series."All the tales are a variety of detective story," wrote Bowles of this, his first short story collection, "in which the reader is the detective;...

This 50th anniversary edition of The Sheltering Sky, one of the great novels of the 20th century, features an original review of the book by Tennessee Williams. Stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II.--New Republic.Author: Paul...

A landmark of twentieth-century literature. Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures. A story about three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II,...

Audio edition of the landmark of 20th Century literature, by acclaimed author Paul BowlesIn this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three...

Audio edition of the landmark of 20th Century literature, by acclaimed author Paul BowlesIn this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three...

Author: Paul BowlesISBN-10: 0062174452ISBN-13: 9780062174451Publisher: Ecco PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2016Pages: 354Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.88d

Originally published in 1955, Paul Bowles's remarkable novel set in Fez, Morocco, during the last days of the French colonial empire, is an expansive piece of writing--vintage Bowles"With its atmosphere of sinister tension, its scenes of nationalist conspiracy and French police action, of escape...

Originally published in 1955, Paul Bowles's remarkable novel set in Fez, Morocco, during the last days of the French colonial empire, is an expansive piece of writing--vintage BowlesThe dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures, recurrent...

"Bowles's tales are at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth. His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirley its own." --Tobias WolffAn American cult figure, Paul Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as...

An engaging collection of travel essays by the author of The Sheltering Sky Their Heads are Green, Their Hands are Blue deals largely with places in the world that few Westerners have ever heard of, much less seen--places as yet unencumbered by the trappings,...

A striking collection of stories, poems, letters, travel essays, journal entries, excerpts from three novels, and more--including the complete text of The Sheltering Sky--from one of the most revered authors of the twentieth centuryAuthor: Paul BowlesISBN-10: 0061137405ISBN-13: 9780061137402Publisher: Ecco PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2006Pages: 568Format: PaperbackWeight:...

"Bowles is at his best when writing about places. He can evoke a place with a few sure strokes."--New York Times"His work is art. At his best, Bowles has no peer."--TimeTravels is a thrilling anthology of the travel writings of Paul Bowles, author of...

On the terrace of an elaborate hilltop apartment overlooking a Central American capital, four people sit making polite conversation. The American couple -- an elderly physician and his young wife -- are tourists. Their host, whom they have just met, is a young man...

On the terrace of an elaborate hilltop apartment overlooking a Central American capital, four people sit making polite conversation. The American couple -- an elderly physician and his young wife -- are tourists. Their host, whom they have just met, is a young man...

Paul Bowles, the acclalmed author of The Shelterlng Sky, offers movlng, powerful, subtle, and fasclnatlng lnslghts lnto hls llfe, hls wrltlng, and hls world.Author: Paul BowlesISBN-10: 0061137413ISBN-13: 9780061137419Publisher: Ecco PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2006Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.28h x 6.32w x 1.02d