Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 9780141181912
Tells the story of an American couple's fated attempt to regenerate their strange and troubled marriage as they journey through North Africa. The book is a portrayal of a man's physical and mental disintegration and is written by the author of Midnight Mass.
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 1981
Category :
ISBN : 9780720605877
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.
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 1990
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780586089323
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 : Jim Booth
Publisher : Watchmaker Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780972178600
"Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so."--Back cover
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062119354
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.
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062119362
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.
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Moroccan literature (English)
ISBN :
"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.
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 2006-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061137383
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 Bowles
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780878056507
Collected interviews with the author of The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, and The Spider's House
Author : Paul Bowles
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062119346
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).
