Without Stopping : An Autobiography

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 Paul Bowles, the acclalmed author of The Shelterlng Sky, offers movlng, powerful, subtle, and fasclnatlng lnslghts lnto hls llfe, hls wrltlng, and hls world. Zusammenfassung Paul Bowles! the acclalmed author of The Shelterlng Sky ! offers movlng! powerful! subtle! and fasclnatlng lnslghts lnto hls llfe! hls wrltlng! and hls world.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Bowles
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2006
• EAN: 9780061137419
• ISBN: 978-0-06-113741-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 208 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES: Writing / Authorship, HISTORY: Africa / General, TRAVEL: Special Interest / Literary, LITERARY CRITICISM: Shakespeare, TRAVEL: Africa / General, EDUCATION: Arts in Education