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Paul Bowles by His Friends
This collection of reminiscences of the writer Paul Bowles presents a composite portrait of his complex yet reticent personality. Various contributors--writers, painters, composers, journalists and publishers--have known him for many years. Paul Bowles's accomplishments as a composer of music and his work for the theatre are also brought to the fore.
In Touch
This extraordinary collection of correspondence by Paul Bowles spans eight decades and provides an evolving portrait of an artist renowned for his privacy. From his earliest extant letter, written at the age of four, to his precocious effusions to Aaron Copeland and to Gertrude Stein; from his meditations on mescaline as relayed to Ned Rorem, to his intensely moving letters to Jane Bowles during her illness, In Touch fills in the lacunae left by previous biographers and offers a rare look at the many aspects of Bowles's brilliant career—as composer, novelist, short-story master, travel writer, translator, ethnographer, and literary critic. Here is Bowles on the genesis of his first novel, ...
Paul Bowles
This author gives a pointed inspection of Paul Bowles' short stories including interviews, letters, prefaces and other biographical materials that span over ten years and closing with a collection of public commentaries on his writings.
You Are Not I
You Are Not I is a portrait of the elusive writer-composer Paul Bowles, who left the United States in 1947 to live permanently in Morocco. There he created some of the finest American prose of the century, including the international bestseller The Sheltering Sky. In his brilliant and terrifying short stories and novels, he explores haunting themes of desire, exile, and emotional disintegration. Millicent Dillon interweaves episodes in Paul Bowles's life, distillations of his work, reports of their conversations, and speculations on the connections between his life and his work.
Paul Bowles
Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works -- A brief biography of the author -- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context -- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index -- A readable style presented in a manageable length
Paul Bowles Music
A stunning volume of essays, original articles & reviews, excerpts from travel journals, & images: the first book ever to focus exclusively on Paul Bowles' career as a composer. Documents & evokes the period during which Bowles was primarily a composer, & includes an incisive new interview with Philip Ramey in which Bowles looks back on his musical career. This is the first volume of a series to be published in conjunction with music festivals organized by Eos Music Inc. in New York.
Without Stopping
Paul Bowles, the acclalmed author of The Shelterlng Sky, offers movlng, powerful, subtle, and fasclnatlng lnslghts lnto hls llfe, hls wrltlng, and hls world.
Paul Bowles
Shows that the writings of Paul Bowles, who is often seen as a literary renegade, owe much to the antinomian American tradition of Emerson and his literary descendants.
Paul Bowles
An acclaimed biographer with unsurpassed personal access to Paul Bowles (1910-2001) and to his friends and his archive pens this revelatory biography of the writer of the 1949 autobiographical bestselling novel "The Sheltering Sky."
An Invisible Spectator
"Filled with insights into an enigma" ("USA Today"), "An Invisible Spectator" chronicles Paul Bowles's life and work--interwoven with vivid depictions of the writer's intimates, including Truman Capote, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs.
