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Collected Stories by Paul Bowles
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In these hauntingly beautiful stories of abandonment and vengeance, extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions. A missionary is sent to a place so distant he finds his God has no power there; a husband abandons his wife as they honeymoon in the South American jungle; a splash of water triggers an ...Show more
Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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.
M'Hashish by Mohammed Mrabet; Paul Bowles (Translator)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Ah," said Hassan, "I don't believe in the world. There's another world where life is different.These are stories of that world. The word m'hashish (equivalent in Moghrebi of "behashished" or "full of hashish") is used only in a literal sense, but also figuratively, to describe a person whose behavior s ...Show more
Sheltering Sky (Popular Penguin) by Paul Bowles
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: Popular Penguins
The Moresbys are Americans abroad, but some journeys are best left unmade. Struggling to save their marriage, they resolve to trade civilization for the wilderness of the Sahara. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents of an ...Show more
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
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. At first, the pair are seduced by the desert's beauty. But beneath the exquisite landscape lurk the dark undercurrents ...Show more
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (University of Northern British Columbia Canada)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A beautiful 65th anniversary paperback edition of the landmark literary work by acclaimed author Paul Bowles.In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of ...Show more
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'"The Sheltering Sky" is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where, curiously, they are never alone' - Michael Hoffman. 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 predic ...Show more
The Spider's House by Paul Bowles (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada)
$21.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, The Spider's House is perhaps Paul Bowles's most beautifully subtle novel, richly descriptive of its setting and uncompromising in its characterizations. Exploring once again the dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the ga ...Show more
Travels by Paul Bowles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel
This is first ever collected travel writing by a 20th century master, illustrated with photographs from the Bowles archive, and introduced by Edmund White. Paul Bowles began travelling the moment he could - leaving America as a teenager to visit Gertrude Stein in Paris. He settled in Morocco after the w ...Show more
UP ABOVE THE WORLD by BOWLES PAUL
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
On the terrace of an elaborate hilltop apartment overlooking a Central American capital, four people sit making polite conversation. The American couple -- an elderly physician and his young wife -- are tourists. Their host, whom they have just met, is a young man of striking good looks and charm. The g ...Show more
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