Plain Pleasures, Bowles J.

Автор: Paul Bowles
Название: Let It Come Down
ISBN: 0141182202 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141182209
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre experiences in the inferno of Tangiers as he gives in to his darkest impulses.

Автор: Paul Bowles
Название: The Sheltering Sky
ISBN: 0141187778 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141187778
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Описание: Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavoring to escape this predicament, they set off for North Africa intending to travel through Algeria - uncertain of exactly where they are heading, but determined to leave the modern world behind.

Автор: Bowles Paul
Название: Travels: Collected Writings 1950-1993
ISBN: 006206763X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062067630
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 13930.00 T
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Inmore than forty essays and articles that range from Paris to Ceylon, Thailand to Kenya, and, of course, Morocco, the great twen-tieth-century American writer encapsulates his long and full life, and sheds light on his brilliant fiction. Whether he's recalling the cold-water artists' flats of Paris's Left Bank or the sun-worshipping eccentrics of Tangier, Paul Bowles imbues every piece with a deep intelligence and the acute perspective of his rich experience of the world. Woven throughout are photographs from the renowned author's private archive, which place him, his wife, the writer Jane Bowles, and their many friends and compatriots in the landscapes his essays bring so vividly to life.

With an introduction by Paul Theroux and a chronology by Daniel Halpern

Автор: Bowles, Jane
Название: Jane Bowles: Collected
ISBN: 1598535137 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781598535136
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: For her centenary (February 22, 2017), the most complete edition ever published of the brilliant modernist writings and evocative letters of an LGBT pioneer.

Though Jane Bowles published only one novel, one play, and a handful of stories, her genius for spare prose and vivid dialogue had an outsized influence on her contemporaries. Tennessee Williams called her "the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters"; for John Ashbery she was "one of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language." Now, on the occasion of her centenary, Library of America presents the most complete edition ever published of Bowles's incomparable fiction, along with an extensive selection of her frank, vivid, and funny letters. Two Serious Ladies (1943), based partly on her honeymoon in Mexico with her husband, the writer and composer Paul Bowles, follows two bourgeois American women in Panama as they jettison sexual and cultural norms in search of happiness: Christina Goering, a wealthy spinster who becomes a high-class prostitute; and newlywed Frieda Copperfield, who finds love and comfort in the arms of a young Panamanian girl. In The Summer House (1954), a play about two mothers, one selfish and ruthless, despising her dreamy daughter, the other gentle, dominated by her strong-minded daughter, was performed on Broadway in 1953 and reflects Bowles's complicated relationship with her own mother. The volume also includes five short stories, two song lyrics, a puppet play, and the nonfiction sketch "East Side: North Africa." (Paul Bowles's rewrite of "East Side: North Africa," published in 1966, under Jane's name, as the short story "Everything Is Nice," is also included as an appendix), as well as fragments from two abandoned novels, a section of Two Serious Ladies cut from an earlier draft, four abandoned stories, one unfinished play, and one autobiographical fragment. Rounding out the volume are 133 letters, including candid portraits of such friends and acquaintances as John Ashbery, William Burroughs, Ira Gershwin, Allen Ginsberg, Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath, Paul Robeson, Susan Sontag, Gertrude Stein, Gore Vidal, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams. The letters are introduced with headnotes by editor Millicent Dillon, plus 10 pages of photographs have been reproduced from the original edition of the letters.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Автор: Bowles, Paul
Название: Without Stopping: An Autobiography
ISBN: 0061137413 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061137419
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 17650.00 T
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Описание: Without Stopping is a touching autobiography by Paul Bowles that is full of subtle insights into his life and writing.

Автор: Bowles, Paul
Название: Points in Time
ISBN: 0061139637 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061139635
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 10440.00 T
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Описание: Points in time is the 1982 novel by acclaimed American author Paul Bowles.,

Автор: Bowles, Paul
Название: Collected stories & later writings
ISBN: 1931082200 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781931082204
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 42910.00 T
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Описание: "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).

Автор: Bowles
Название: Sheltering Sky, The
ISBN: 0141023422 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141023427
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Some journeys are best left unmade. Kit and Port Moresby are Americans abroad. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. And as they travel deeper, they might not only lose their way. They could lose their lives!

Автор: Paul Bowles
Название: The Delicate Prey
ISBN: 0141195827 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141195827
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Описание: 'And then one day a solitary figure appeared, moving toward them across the lifeless plain from the west.One man on a camel... 'Paul Bowles's unforgettable short stories portray people facing hostile environments and the innate savagery of humanity. These three unbearably tense tales from sun-drenched and brutal climes tell of vengeance, abandonment, violence and cruelty enjoyed and suffered, in a surreal realm of horror.

This book includes The Delicate Prey, A Distant Episode and The Circular Ruins.

Автор: Kenneth Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles
Название: Gung Ho!
ISBN: 0006530680 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006530688
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: With a new foreword by Ken Blanchard An invaluable new strategy for creating enthusiastic employees, from the author of the bestselling The One Minute Manager.

Автор: Bowles, Paul
Название: Sheltering Sky, The
ISBN: 006083482X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060834821
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 10440.00 T
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Описание: The Sheltreing Sky is a landmark of 20th Centruy literature by acclaimed author Paul Bowles. This paperback includes a new P.S. section with interviews, insights, features, suggested readings, and more.

Автор: Paul Bowles
Название: Up Above the World
ISBN: 0141191384 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141191386
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome Grove Soto and his young Cuban mistress. But as the Slades` trip becomes prolonged and they grow dependent on their new acquaintances, an undercurrent of cruelty begins to disturb the comfort to which they are accustomed.