The Delicate Prey & Other Stories
Title | The Delicate Prey & Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 1950 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9784653014324 |
The Delicate Prey
Title | The Delicate Prey PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | 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).
The Delicate Prey Deluxe Edition
Title | The Delicate Prey Deluxe Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | Ecco |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-06-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780062393852 |
Paul Bowles’s classic collection of short stories, available in 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 characters’’ 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 perceptive, 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).
Delicate Prey
Title | Delicate Prey PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Jackson |
Publisher | Signet |
Pages | |
Release | 1960-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780451012968 |
The Delicate Prey
Title | The Delicate Prey PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1950 |
Genre | Africa, North |
ISBN |
Exemplary stories that reveal the bizarre, the disturbing, the perilous, and the wise in other civilzations.
Paul Bowles reads The delicate prey ...
Title | Paul Bowles reads The delicate prey ... PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Short Story Index
Title | Short Story Index PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy Elizabeth Cook |
Publisher | H. W. Wilson |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Short stories |
ISBN | 9780824203856 |