Paul Bowles
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
©1977
Language
English
Description
The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa after WWII. A couple, drawn by desire to the Sahara, follow their passionate obeseeions in an attempt to recapture the love they once shared. This psychological terror examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Paul Bowles once said that a story should remain taut throughout, like a piece of string. That tense, stretched tone is the key to this collection of 17 eerie tales by the author best known for The Sheltering Sky. The Delicate Prey is dedicated: "For my mother, who first read me the stories of Poe." If Poe had lived in Mexico, and he'd had ice water running in his veins to counteract his feverish romanticism, he might have crafted something like these...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry-possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at Tecaté," a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In "Call at Corazón," an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1955]
Language
English
Description
Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, The Spider's House is perhaps Paul Bowles's most beautifully subtle novel, richly descriptive of its setting and uncompromising in its characterizations. Exploring once again the dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures-recurrent themes of Paul Bowles's writings-The Spider's House is dramatic, brutally honest, and shockingly relevant...
Author
Publisher
City Light Books
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
First published in 1962, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard by American author Paul Bowles is a book comprising 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 enemy. He of the Assembly catches himself up in the mesh of his own kif-dream and begins...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A beautiful, yet disturbing, tale of two people traveling into the Sahara. Although the couple apear to be smart, independent travelers, they are not equipped to travel into the desert.Thus, each time hardship strikes, pieces of their comfortable lives and the identities they had constructed seem to peel away. The shifting sands and unforgiving sun are metaphors for the shocking and vulgar circumstances that befall them
Author
Series
Library of America volume 134
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 135
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English