The Sheltering Sky
Title | The Sheltering Sky PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | |
Total 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.
The New Southern Gentleman
Title | The New Southern Gentleman PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Booth |
Publisher | Watchmaker Publishing |
Total 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
Let it Come Down
Title | Let it Come Down PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1952 |
Genre | Moroccan literature (English) |
ISBN |
"Nelson Dyar, an average bank clerk, was bored with the monotony of his life. So he quit his job, gambled his savings on a steamship ticket, and sailed for Tangier. There, overwhelmed by the sights, sounds and smells of exotic North Africa, he flirted with danger, drugs and sensual abandonment, fell in love with an Arab girl, and plunged headlong to his terrifying doom."--Back cover.
Let it Come Down
Title | Let it Come Down PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total 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 Spider's House
Title | The Spider's House PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 442 |
Release | 2011-11-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062119362 |
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 thriller." -New York Times The dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between cultures, recurrent themes of Paul Bowles’s writings, are dramatized with brutal honesty in this novel set in Fez, Morocco, during that country’s 1954 nationalist uprising. Totally relevant to today’s political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere, richly descriptive of its setting, and uncompromising in its characterizations, The Spider’s House is perhaps Bowles’s best, most beautifully subtle novel.
Conversations with Paul Bowles
Title | Conversations with Paul Bowles PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Bowles |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total 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 |
Total 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.