Conversations with Paul Bowles
Title | Conversations with Paul Bowles PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780878056507 |
Collected interviews with the author of The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, and The Spider's House
A Distant Episode
Title | A Distant Episode PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2006-06-13 |
Genre | 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.
Talk with Paul Bowles
Title | Talk with Paul Bowles PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey Breit |
Publisher | |
Pages | 19 |
Release | 1952 |
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The Sheltering Sky
Title | The Sheltering Sky PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | 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.
Let it Come Down
Title | Let it Come Down PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2011-08-09 |
Genre | 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.
The New Southern Gentleman
Title | The New Southern Gentleman PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Booth |
Publisher | Watchmaker Publishing |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | 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
Yesterday's Perfume
Title | Yesterday's Perfume PDF eBook |
Author | Cherie Nutting |
Publisher | Three Rivers Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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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.