Delicate Prey, and Other Stories (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
First published in 1950, this book is a collection of exemplary short stories that reveal the bizarre, the disturbing, the perilous, and the wise in other civilizations-from one of America's most important writers of the twentieth century."e;Paul Bowles...
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First published in 1950, this book is a collection of exemplary short stories that reveal the bizarre, the disturbing, the perilous, and the wise in other civilizations-from one of America's most important writers of the twentieth century."e;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."e;-NORMAN MAILER"e;Paul Bowles's sense of what can go wrong is as acute as that of any American writer since Poe....Bowles's sensibility is classical in its aloofness, his prose as hard-edged and dazzling as a desert landscape at noon."e;-JAY McINERNEY"e;The Delicate Prey is in fact one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature....Bowles's tales arc at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth."e;-TOBIAS WOLFF
Autoren-Porträt von Paul Bowles
Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 - November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with Tangier, Morocco, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.Born in New York City, he was first published in the old Transition in 1928, and entered the University of Virginia in 1929, which he quit for the Left Bank. Two years later he made his first visit to North Africa, a tentative trip which lasted for four years. He intended to return there to live, but World War II interfered; instead, he spent five years in Latin America.
After the war he returned to Morocco to buy a small house in the medina of Tangier, and from this base he began to travel southward and eastward. In 1949 he first visited Ceylon and India, and returned often, eventually buying a small island off the south coast of Ceylon, which served as his winter headquarters until 1959. Before moving once again to live all year round in Morocco.
His first novel, The Sheltering Sky, became a bestseller in the 1950s and was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1990. His other novels include Let It Come Down (1952) and The Spider's House (1955). He has also published short stories and collections, as well as books of travel, poetry, and translations.
Bowles's prolific career also included many musical compositions, having garnered one of the largest and most diversified collections of recordings of native North African music for the Library of Congress.
He died in 1999 at the age of 88.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul Bowles
- 2016, Englisch
- Verlag: Tannenberg Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1787202976
- ISBN-13: 9781787202979
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.11.2016
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