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Paul Bowles
A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome Grove Soto and his young Cuban mistress. But as the Slades’…
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Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavoring to escape this predicament, they set off for…
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In these more than twenty interviews dating from 1952 to the present, Paul Bowles gives a variety of answers that reveal as much as they conceal. Too gracious to refuse…
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Tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre…
Presents stories of abandonment and vengeance, in which extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions. A missionary is sent to a place so distant he finds his God has no power…
David Katzenstein, Paul Bowles
The photographs collected here represent David Katzenstein's lifelong artistic journey as a visual chronicler of humanity. Traveling to many parts of the world, he experienced other cultures and peoples firsthand…
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Hassan Bourara
This study of Paul Bowles’s North African writings, especially those concerned with Morocco, investigates the possibilities and limitations that accrued from the writer’s carefully maintained reputation as both a traveler…
Gena Dagel Caponi
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…
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Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself first and foremost as a composer. This book collects the music criticism that Bowles…
An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Tobias Wolff. From The Delicate Prey to…
Virginia Spencer Carr
A revelatory biography of one of America’s most controversial and revered writers, by biographer Virginia Spencer Carr, who had unparalleled personal access to Paul Bowles.
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 entirely its…
Karren LaLonde Alenier
ells 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…
Capitalism stands unrivalled as the economic system. This is a guide to thinking about capitalism, both as an ideology and as an economic system. It concludes by arguing that the…
This first annotated edition of Bowles’ later works offers the full range of his achievements and contains his masterpiece of travel writing, Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are…
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…
This book provides an innovative and systematic analysis of the implications of the theories of globalization for national currencies; and critically examines whether, as a result, the world is heading…
Exemplary storles that reveal the blzarre, the dlsturblng, the perilous, and the wlse in other clvlllzatlons – from one of Amerlca’s most lmportant wrlters of the twentleth century. –Back cover.
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…
Fiction. Moroccan kif-smokers like to speak of ‘two worlds,’ the one ruled by inexorable natural laws, and the other, the kif world, in which each person perceives ‘reality’ according to…
The Pool K III is Paul Bowles’ most unfathomable musical work, one not yielding to easy interpretation. It is a realm of sound that creates a dreamlike journey without a…
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…
Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home through the streets of the Medina. A nationalist uprising is transforming the country, much to…
Allen Hibbard
Paul Bowles (1910Â 1999) was one of the most paradoxical literary talents of his century, a sophisticated New York writer and composer who lived a half-century in Morocco, a man…
Barry Charles Tharaud
Shows that the writings of Paul Bowles, who is often seen as a literary renegade, owe much to the antinomian American tradition of Emerson and his literary descendants.
Simplified Chinese edition of The Sheltering Sky
Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno
Filled with insights into an enigma ( USA Today ), An Invisible Spectator chronicles Paul Bowles’s life and work–interwoven with vivid depictions of the writer’s intimates, including Truman Capote, Gertrude…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Paul Bowles’s Eye, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Richard F. Patteson
Beginning with Bowles’ account of a frightening childhood memory, A World Outside explores how the dichotomies of inside and outside, safety and danger, enclosure and exposure-fundamental dualities in Bowles’ fiction-have…
Millicent Dillon
A biography of Paul Bowles, the famously enigmatic writer-composer. It questions the biographer’s role, the subject’s credibility, and the very nature of ‘truth’ in the telling of a life. It…
Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook. This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major…
Author reads his celebrated collection of connected kif stories, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard. Printed insert with author’s introductory essay for this production and reading.
Hamza Touzani
The writer and composer, Paul Bowles, one of America's most famous expatriates, died in Tangier on November 18, 1999. He had lived there for more than half a century. Bowles'…
Paul Bowles (University of Northern British Columbia Canada)
Originally published: New York: Random House, 1955.
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…
Originally published: Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980.
A distant episode contains the best of Paul Bowles’s short stories, as selected by the author –P. [4] of cover.
Reprint. Originally published: London: P. Owen, 1982.
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…
For over forty-five years, Paul Bowles has been one of this century’s most enigmatic and intriguing writers, best known for his novel The Sheltering Sky. This striking collection highlights Bowles’s…
