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Sheltering Sky
Av Paul Bowles
Häftad, 2004
149 kr
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'The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are never alone' Michael Hoffman.Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavouring to escape this …
For Bread Alone
Av Mohamed Choukri, Paul Bowles
Häftad, 2006
155 kr
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Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers 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 Mohamed's father in a fit of rage. On moving to another province Mohamed …
Up Above the World
Av Paul Bowles
Häftad, 2009
152 kr
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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' trip becomes prolonged and they grow increasingly dependent on their new acquaintances, an undercurrent of …
Stories of Paul Bowles
Av Paul Bowles
E-bok, 2010
125 kr
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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 …
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World
Av Paul Bowles
Häftad, 2013
279 kr
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Travels
Collected Writings, 1950-1993
Av Paul Bowles
E-bok, 2011
123 kr
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“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.” — Time Travels is a thrilling anthology of the travel writings of Paul Bowles, author of the era-defining post-war novel The …
Sheltering Sky
Av Paul Bowles
E-bok, 2011
87 kr
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A beautiful paperback edition of a landmark of 20th Century literature, by acclaimed author Paul Bowles In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of …
Delicate Prey
And Other Stories
Av Paul Bowles
E-bok, 2011
25 kr
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Exemplary storles that reveal the blzarre, the dlsturblng, the perllous, and the wlse ln other clvlllzatlons -- from one of Amerlca's most lmportant wrlters of the twentleth century.
Let it Come Down
A Novel
Av Paul Bowles
E-bok, 2011
123 kr
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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 …
Spider's House
A Novel
Av Paul Bowles
E-bok, 2011
86 kr
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Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country''s 1954 nationalist uprising, The Spider''s House is perhaps Paul Bowles''s most beautifully subtle novel, richly descriptive of its setting and uncompromising in its characterizations. Exploring once again the dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, …
Spider's House
A Novel
Av Paul Bowles
Ljudbok, 2022
246 kr
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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 The dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures, recurrent themes …
Up Above the World
A Novel
Av Paul Bowles
Ljudbok, 2022
205 kr
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On the terrace of an elaborate hilltop apartment overlooking a Central American capital, four people sit making polite conversation. The American couple -- an elderly physician and his young wife -- are tourists. Their host, whom they have just met, is a young man of striking good looks and charm. …
Let It Come Down
A Novel
Av Paul Bowles
Ljudbok, 2022
225 kr
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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 …
Stories of Paul Bowles
Av Paul Bowles
Ljudbok, 2022
438 kr
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“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 own.†—Tobias Wolff An American cult figure, Paul Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, …
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue
Av Paul Bowles
Ljudbok, 2022
192 kr
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An engaging collection of travel essays by the author of The Sheltering Sky Their Heads are Green, Their Hands are Blue deals largely with places in the world that few Westerners have ever heard of, much less seen—places as yet unencumbered by the trappings, luxuries, and corruptions of modern …
Travels
Av Paul Bowles
Ljudbok, 2022
246 kr
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“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.†— Time Travels is a thrilling anthology of the travel writings of Paul Bowles, author of the era-defining post-war novel …
Points in Time
Av Paul Bowles
Ljudbok, 2022
123 kr
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In this intense and brilliant book, Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing experience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader on a journey …
Delicate Prey
Av Paul Bowles
Ljudbok, 2022
233 kr
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Paul Bowles’s classic collection of short stories “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 …
