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  • The Sheltering Sky

    by Paul Bowles ...
    Kit and Port Moresby are an American couple touring North Africa with another man, Turner. As they travel deeper into the Sahara desert, tensions rise and a love triangle emerges: the landscape informs the emotional lives of the characters, who are by turns suffocated by their surroundings and moved by its beauty. Writing in The New York Times, Tennessee Williams called The Sheltering Sky ... Read more

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  • For Bread Alone

    by Mohamed Choukri ...
    Translated by Paul Bowles ...
    Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangier in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed's siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. On moving to another province Mohamed learns how to charm and steal, and discovers the joys of drugs, sex and alcohol. Proud, insolent and afraid of ... Read more

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  • The Stories of Paul Bowles

    by 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 entirley its own.” —Tobias WolffAn American cult figure, Paul 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” ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Sheltering Sky

    by Paul Bowles ...
    “The Sheltering Sky is one of the most original, even visionary, works of fiction to appear in the twentieth century.” —Tobias Wolff"It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II.” —New RepublicIn this existential classic of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend other cultures—and the ways in which their ... Read more

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  • Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue

    by Paul Bowles ...
    In the nineteenth century there flourished a peculiar breed of Englishmen—often the second sons of the aristocracy, or ambitious men from a lower class—who as soldiers, consuls and tea planters, were largely responsible for making England a great colonial power.Save for the fact that he is a staunch anticolonialist, Paul Bowles resembles these men in many respects. Like them, he appears to be ... Read more

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  • The Spider's House

    A Novel

    by Paul Bowles ...
    Originally published in 1955, Paul Bowles’s remarkable novel set in Fez, Morocco, during the last days of the French colonial empire, is an expansive piece of writing—vintage Bowles"With its atmosphere of sinister tension, its scenes of nationalist conspiracy and French police action, of escape and pursuit in the Arab quarter, The Spider's House reads for stretches like a first-class political ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Delicate Prey

    And Other Stories

    by Paul Bowles ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard

    by Paul Bowles ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Travels

    Collected Writings, 1950-1993

    by Paul Bowles ...
    “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 has no peer.”—TimeTravels 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 ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • Let it Come Down

    A Novel

    by Paul Bowles ...

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  • The Delicate Prey

    And Other Stories

    by Paul Bowles ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • A Life Full of Holes

    A Novel

    by Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi ...
    Translated by Paul Bowles ...
    "Charhadi has written the first novel ever produced in Moghrebi. The work is not only unprecedented, it is also very good, and much of it is marvellous." —Alfred Chester, Book WeekOne of the most unusual literary innovations ever produced, A Life Full of Holes is the result of a singular collaboration between two remarkable individuals: Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, an illiterate North African ... Read more

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