Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Later Writings (LOA #135): Delicate Prey / Hund

Description: Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Later Writings (LOA #135) by Paul Bowles This first annotated edition of Bowles later works offers the full range of his achievements and contains his masterpiece of travel writing, "Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue." FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "The Library of America has made it easier for readers to enjoy Bowless exotic literary harvest." — The Columbus DispatchPaul Bowles was a composer, writer, and an American expatriate who spent most of the last five decades of his life in Tangier. According The Boston Globe, he was "one of the literary class acts of the twentieth century." This Library of America volume, containing his stories and travel writings, is one of two volumes in the first annotated edition of Paul Bowless work and is a "treasure trove for readers who havent explored beyond The Sheltering Sky" (The Seattle Times)."All the tales are a variety of detective story," wrote Bowles of his first collection, The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950), "in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is the motivation for the characters behavior." In such stories as "A Distant Episode" and "How Many Midnights," Bowles pushes human character beyond socially defined limits and maps a transformed (often horribly transformed) reality.A master of gothic terror and an acute and at times diabolically funny observer of manners and motives both American and Moroccan, Bowles confirmed his mastery of the short story in such volumes as A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962), The Time of Friendship (1967), Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977), and Midnight Mass (1981), all included here along with a selection of his final stories.This volume also contains Up Above the World (1966), a frightening novella set in Latin America in which a trusting American couple are lured into an annihilating trap, and the informed and fascinating travel book Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963).LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. Author Biography Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important American composer when, at the age of 38, he published The Sheltering Sky and became widely recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. An American expatriate who spent most of the last five decades of his life in Tangier, he produced novels, stories, and travel writings in which exquisite surfaces and violent undercurrents mingle. Details ISBN1931082200 Author Paul Bowles Short Title LIAM COLL STORIES & LATER WRIT Language English ISBN-10 1931082200 ISBN-13 9781931082204 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2002 Residence US DOI 10.1604/9781931082204 Imprint The Library of America Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2002-08-26 NZ Release Date 2002-08-26 US Release Date 2002-08-26 UK Release Date 2002-08-26 Pages 1050 Publisher The Library of America Series Library of America Paul Bowles Edition Publication Date 2002-08-26 Subtitle Delicate Prey / Hundred Camels in Courtyard / Time of Friendship / Things Gone & Things Still Here / Midnight Mass / Their Heads Are Green & Their Hands Are Blu DEWEY 813.54 Series Number 2 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137803432;

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