Stories of Paul Bowles

Name: Stories of Paul Bowles
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ISBN: 9780061137044

ISBN-10: 0061137049

ISBN-13: 9780061137044

Edition: 2001

Authors: Paul Bowles

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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 Corazn," 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…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English