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1) The sheltering sky

Author

Bowles, Paul

Series

Vintage international

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Three Americans drifting through post-war North Africa encounter the limits of human existence in the form of a land and a people utterly alien to them.

2) Without stopping: an autobiography

Author

Bowles, Paul

Language

English

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Paul Bowles, the acclaimed author of The Sheltering Sky, offers moving, powerful, subtle, and fascinating insights into his life, his writing, and his world.

3) The stories of Paul Bowles

Author

Bowles, Paul

Pub. Date

2001.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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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...

4) Travels: collected writings, 1950-1993

Author

Bowles, Paul

Pub. Date

[2011]

Edition

First United States edition.

Language

English

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Travels is a thrilling anthology of the travel writings of Paul Bowles, author of the era-defining post-war novel The Sheltering Sky. The acclaimed essays in Travel-never before collected in a single volume-span more than sixty years and range from Bowles's early days in Paris to his time spent in Ceylon, Thailand, Kenya, and his expatriate life in Morocco. Insightful, exciting, and evocative, featuring original photographs throughout, Travels is...