Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Later Writings (LOA #135) by Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Later Writings (LOA #135) by Paul Bowles

The Library of America has made it easier for readers to enjoy Bowles's exotic literary harvest. -- The Columbus Dispatch

Paul 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 Bowles's work and is a treasure trove for readers who haven't 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).

Professor of Economics and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada, Paul Bowles

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ISBN 13	9781931082204
ISBN 10	1931082200
Title	Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Later Writings (LOA #135)
Author	Paul Bowles
Series	Library Of America Paul Bowles Edition
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	The Library of America
Year published	2002-08-26
Number of pages	1050
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