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The Stories of Paul Bowles

By Paul Bowles

Book information

Publisher
Harper Perennial
Year
2006
ISBN
0061137049, 9780061137044
Open Library ID
OL7288519M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
852 kB (872127 bytes)
Pages
\0
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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 Tecat?," a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In "Call at Coraz?n," an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their honeymoon in a South American jungle. In "Allal," a boy's drug-induced metamorphosis into a deadly serpent leads to his violent death. Here also are some of Bowles's most famous works, including "The Delicate Prey," a grimly satisfying tale of vengeance, and "A Distant Episode," which Tennessee Williams proclaimed "a masterpiece."

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