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Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco. A devastatingly imaginative observer of the West's encounter with the East, he is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, and Up Above the World. In addition to being one of the most powerful postwar American novelists, Bowles was an acclaimed composer, a travel writer, a poet, a translator, and a short story writer. He died in Morocco in 1999.
In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.
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Vendeur : Russ States, Oil City, PA, Etats-Unis
Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good -. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good -. 1980, 292pp, blue cloth spine w/ blue paper over boards, foxing to top pg edges, clear plastic dj, some rubbing & soiling to dj, contents clean & unmarked. N° de réf. du vendeur 23-1150
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Vendeur : GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. N° de réf. du vendeur 15Q89_78_0876854803
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Vendeur : BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! N° de réf. du vendeur Q-0876854803
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Vendeur : SHIMEDIA, Brooklyn, NY, Etats-Unis
Etat : New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. N° de réf. du vendeur 0876854803
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Vendeur : White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : As New. Dust Jacket Included. Santa Barbara CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. Limited edition of 1,000 cloth trade copies. Inscribed on the half title page "Paul Bowles / for Bob Hines / Tangier / 26/XI/90" (NOTE: He probably meant 1980, the year of publication). Bowles also signed his name over his initials at the end of the new preface. Hines was a long-time friend of Tennessee Williams. Hines and his partner Jack Frick lived in New Orleans and in 1965 Williams suggested they visit Bowles in Tangier: "You'll adore Janie [Bowles], and I've no doubt Paul's New England reserve will relax before your mannerly Southern charm.Things are cheap there. Bootleg liquor is $2.50 for a quart of the best Scotch. A piece of ass is two bucks and the swimming is great in the summer. You must go see them." In 1983 Hines served as a pallbearer at Williams' funeral. Light shelf wear and fading to bottom of boards. Still in the original acetate cover. Signed by Author(s). Book. N° de réf. du vendeur 0B-NH85-55ZI
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