Travels

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Publisher : Sort of Books
ISBN 13 : 1908745266
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Travels by : Paul Bowles

Download or read book Travels written by Paul Bowles and published by Sort of Books. This book was released on 2010-06-26 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Bowles began travelling the moment he could - leaving America as a teenager to visit Gertrude Stein in Paris. He settled in Morocco after the war, and for thirty years travelled in North Africa, Central America, Southeast Asia, Indian and Sri Lanka (where he bought an island). He wrote articles, essays and journals along the way - writing which ranks with his novels in its astute observation, dry wit and impeccable prose. Travels brings together for the first time Paul Bowles's travel writing and journals. It includes the full text of his book Their Heads Are Green along with thirty other pieces, previously unpublished in book form. They are accompanied by fifty photos from the Bowles archive.

The Spider's House

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062119362
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Spider's House written by Paul Bowles and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and pursuit in the Arab quarter, The Spider's House reads for stretches like a first-class political thriller." -New York Times The dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures, recurrent themes of Paul Bowles’s writings, are dramatized with brutal honesty in this novel set in Fez, Morocco, during that country’s 1954 nationalist uprising. Totally relevant to today’s political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere, richly descriptive of its setting, and uncompromising in its characterizations, The Spider’s House is perhaps Bowles’s best, most beautifully subtle novel.

A Distant Episode

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061137383
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book A Distant Episode written by Paul Bowles and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Delicate Prey

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062119346
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Delicate Prey written by Paul Bowles and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 is the detective; the mystery is in the motivation for the charcters’ behavior.” In such stories as “A Distant Episode” and How Many Midnights,” Bowles pushes human character beyond socially defined limits and maps a transformed (often horribly transformed) reality. Bowles captures the duality of human frailty and cruelty in these seventeen taut and atmospheric tales, written between 1939 and 1949. Brutal and gorgeous, visceral yet profound, this timeless collection is “one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature. . . at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. . . . His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirely its own, capable of instantly modulating from farce to horror without a ruffle” (Tobias Wolff).

Points in Time

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061139637
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Points in Time written by Paul Bowles and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing expreience, 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 on a journey through the Moroccan centuries, pausing at points along the way to create resonant images of the country, it's landscapes, and the beliefs and characteristics of its inhabitants.

Conversations with Paul Bowles

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Paul Bowles written by Paul Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expatriate novelist & musician speaking about his life & such works as The Sheltering Sky & Up Above the World.

Unwelcome Words

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ISBN 13 : 9780939180448
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Unwelcome Words written by Paul Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. In these seven new stories Paul Bowles ranges widely in time, in form, and in geographic area-from Massachusetts to Morocco, from 1932 to the 1970s. Portraits and contemporary scenes mix conventional narration with experimental monologues, and the volume concludes with a tale presented as six letters written to a bitter, dying man. The formal versatility is as arresting as the content. The whole is proof (if it were needed) that, as Gore Vidal remarks, Bowle's art is as disturbing as ever.

The Sheltering Sky

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ISBN 13 : 9780720605877
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Sheltering Sky written by Paul Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful 65th anniversary paperback edition of the landmark literary work by acclaimed author Paul Bowles. In 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 American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after World War II, The Sheltering Sky is at once merciless and heartbreaking in its compassion. It etches the limits of human reason and intelligence--perhaps even the limits of human life--when they touch the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert.

Let it Come Down

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062119354
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Let it Come Down written by Paul Bowles and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.

The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles

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Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles written by Paul Bowles and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 1994 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Boy who Set the Fire & Other Stories

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Boy who Set the Fire & Other Stories by : Mohammed Mrabet

Download or read book The Boy who Set the Fire & Other Stories written by Mohammed Mrabet and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yesterday's Perfume

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Publisher : Three Rivers Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Yesterday's Perfume written by Cherie Nutting and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years ago, Cherie Nutting returned to Morocco. She had first visited it as a child with her mother, and the images of mystery and the desert had stayed with her, fueled over the years by accounts of expatriate life and by the literature created there. In Tangier again, she met the most famous of the expatriates and author of the classic The Sheltering Sky. Cherie became a friend of Paul Bowles and part of his circle. Over the years, the friendship deepened and widened. Yesterday's Perfume is a memoir of that friendship and of Cherie's love of Morocco. She had unparalleled access to Paul, and recorded, journal-like, their conversations and the events of everyday life. Interwoven among Cherie's narrative are bits and pieces of Paul's previously unpublished writings -- diarylike fragments, retellings of dreams, little stories -- a sharp counterpoint in his inimitable voice. Unlike most memoirs, Yesterday's Perfume is blessed with a wealth of extraordinary images. Cherie has created a visual record of their friendship, capturing intimate moments, making formal portraits, recording the comings and goings of celebrities and friends. And here, too, the dialogue with Bowles continues, for Paul has jotted down his reactions in the borders and on the prints. Several other friends have contributed to these pages, Peter Beard, Ned Rorem, and Bruce Weber among them. But key is the collaboration of Cherie and Paul. Together they have created a touching portrait of friendship and a road map to the mind of an artist.

Let it Come Down

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Let it Come Down written by Paul Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nelson Dyar, an average bank clerk, was bored with the monotony of his life. So he quit his job, gambled his savings on a steamship ticket, and sailed for Tangier. There, overwhelmed by the sights, sounds and smells of exotic North Africa, he flirted with danger, drugs and sensual abandonment, fell in love with an Arab girl, and plunged headlong to his terrifying doom."--Back cover.

Too Far from Home

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Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780061137402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Too Far from Home written by Paul Bowles and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 century

Up Above the World

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Up Above the World written by Paul Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Without Stopping

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061137413
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Without Stopping written by Paul Bowles and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Bowles, the acclalmed author of The Shelterlng Sky, offers movlng, powerful, subtle, and fasclnatlng lnslghts lnto hls llfe, hls wrltlng, and hls world.

Midnight Mass

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ISBN 13 : 9780099455905
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Midnight Mass written by Paul Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: