A Distant Episode

Informationen zum Autor Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco. A devastatingly imaginative observer of the West's encounter with the East, he is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky , Let It Come Down , The Spider's House , and Up Above the World . In addition to being one of the most powerful postwar American novelists, Bowles was an acclaimed composer, a travel writer, a poet, a translator, and a short story writer. He died in Morocco in 1999. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Bowles
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.06.2006
• EAN: 9780061137389
• ISBN: 978-0-06-113738-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Speeches, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Medieval style, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Romance / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Speeches, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Medieval, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century, Classic fiction: general and literary