The Stories of Paul Bowles

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The Stories of Paul Bowles

The Stories of Paul Bowles

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ISBN: 9780061137044

Paul Bowles

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The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry—possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at Tecat?," a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In "Call at Coraz?n," an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their honeymoon in a South American jungle. In "Allal," a boy's drug-induced metamorphosis into a deadly serpent leads to his violent death. Here also are some of Bowles's most famous works, including "The Delicate Prey," a grimly satisfying tale of vengeance, and "A Distant Episode," which Tennessee Williams proclaimed "a masterpiece."

Categories:

Crime, Thrillers & Mystery - Short Stories

Year:

2006

Publisher:

Harper Perennial

Language:

english

ISBN 10:

0061137049

ISBN 13:

9780061137044