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Title: The Stories of Paul Bowles by Paul Bowles ISBN: 0-06-093784-X Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Most Under-ratd American Author
Comment: This collection certifies Bowles brilliance. I have enjoyed his novels, but these fascinating short stories reveal him to be one of the greatest American writers of the century, perhaps the most under-rated American writer. I like the fact that his stories are often set in exotic locals like Morocco, S. America, Mexico, and Thailand. He is also good with stories about expats as well as those written form the point of view of locals, some of these stories comes across like parables.
There are several memorable stories, but "A Distant Episode" in particular is brilliant. It's about an ethnologist who goes to study a distant tribe and is drugged fed mushrooms, has his tongue cut out and made to dance before the tribe. His later stories lose none of his precision in story telling either; it is a solid body of work. Highly recommended, however buy the paperback it's a bit of a doorstop at 657 pages.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bowles is the Nazarene Holy man
Comment: A wind blows through Bowles stories. It is dark and harsh and speaks of all the buried things in the world. Populated by broken expats, syphillitics, kif heads, castraters, wanderers, the evil, the misguided, and the foolhardy, his stories are gorgeously dark fables with truly stunning morals. The screw will turn and turn and turn and it is only a matter of time before something bleeds.
Rating: 4
Summary: More Bowles is Always Better
Comment: Once you enter the smoky world of Bowles' winding alleys and doublespeaking faux guides, you won't remember how to get back to where you were before. Was is this turn? Behind that door?
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Title: The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles ISBN: 0880015829 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Spider's House by Paul Bowles ISBN: 0876855451 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Up Above The World by Paul Bowles ISBN: 0880015004 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Hundred Camels in the Courtyard by Paul Bowles, Jack Bowles ISBN: 0872860027 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: June, 1981 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Without Stopping: An Autobiography by Paul Bowles ISBN: 0880016752 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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