The Delicate Prey Deluxe Edition: And Other Stories by Paul Bowles (English) Pap

Description: The Delicate Prey Deluxe Edition by Paul Bowles, Vendela Vida Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Paul Bowless classic collection of short stories, available in a deluxe paperback edition--part of Eccos Art of the Story series."All the tales are a variety of detective story," wrote Bowles of this, his first short story collection, "in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is in 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.Bowles captures the duality of human frailty and cruelty in these seventeen taut and atmospheric tales, written between 1939 and 1949. Brutal and gorgeous, visceral yet perceptive, this timeless collection is "one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature. . . at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. . . . His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirely its own, capable of instantly modulating from farce to horror without a ruffle" (Tobias Wolff). Author Biography Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco. A devastatingly imaginative observer of the Wests encounter with the East, he is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spiders 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.Vendela Vida is the award-winning author of six books, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Divers Clothes Lie Empty. Her new novel, We Run the Tides, will be published by Ecco on February 9, 2021. She is a founding editor of The Believer and coeditor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers and Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence, a collection of interviews with musicians. She was a founding board member of 826 Valencia, the San Francisco writing center for youth, and lives in the Bay Area with her family. Details ISBN 0062393855 ISBN-13 9780062393852 Title The Delicate Prey Deluxe Edition Author Paul Bowles, Vendela Vida Format Paperback Year 2015 Pages 320 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc GE_Item_ID:94444861; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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