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

Description: The Delicate Prey Deluxe Edition by Paul Bowles, Vendela Vida 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). FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Back Cover From master storyteller Paul Bowles comes a new addition to eccos the art of the story series--"essential reading" for any witness to the magic of the short form, writes vendela vida All the tales are a variety of detective story," writes 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, mapping 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 and profound, 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. Review "Paul Bowless sense of what can go wrong is as acute as that of any American writer since Poe. Its not simply the subject matter but the pitiless clarity, the unblinking regard in the face of human frailty and cruelty, that is so disquieting in Bowless work. Whereas the terror in Poe seems to arise from an overheated romantic imagination suffering the torments it bodies forth, Bowless sensibility is calssical in is aloofness, his prose as hard-edged and dazzling as a desert landscape at noon." -- Jay McInerney, "Vanity Fair""The Delicate Prey is in fact one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature, ...Bowless tales are at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth. His language has a purity of line, a pise and authority entirely its own, capable of instantly modulating from farce to horror without a ruffle and without giving any signal of delight in itself. It never goes on parade." -- Tobia Wolff, "Esquire""Paul Bowles has opened the world of Hip. He let in the murder, the drugs, the incest, the death of the Square...the call of the orgy, the end of civilization." -- Norman Mailer Details ISBN0062393855 Author Vendela Vida Short Title DELICATE PREY DLX /E Pages 320 Language English ISBN-10 0062393855 ISBN-13 9780062393852 Media Book Format Paperback Residence US Series Art of the Story Year 2015 Publication Date 2015-06-23 Subtitle And Other Stories Audience General UK Release Date 2015-06-23 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint Collins Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2015-06-23 Imprint US Ecco Publisher US HarperCollins 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:94444861;

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