Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965283762
Category : Morocco
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of stories by the late American writer and longtime expatriate residing in Morocco covers the breadth of his literary career.
The Stories of Paul Bowles
Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965283762
Category : Morocco
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of stories by the late American writer and longtime expatriate residing in Morocco covers the breadth of his literary career.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965283762
Category : Morocco
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of stories by the late American writer and longtime expatriate residing in Morocco covers the breadth of his literary career.
Paul Bowles on Music
Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520236554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"In this wonderfully engaging and informative collection we hear the voice of a different Paul Bowles. Writing on a wide range of subjects--jazz, film music, classical music, popular music, ethnic music--he is direct, opinionated, incisive, analytical, humorous, and passionate."—Millicent Dillon, author of You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520236554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"In this wonderfully engaging and informative collection we hear the voice of a different Paul Bowles. Writing on a wide range of subjects--jazz, film music, classical music, popular music, ethnic music--he is direct, opinionated, incisive, analytical, humorous, and passionate."—Millicent Dillon, author of You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles
Paul Bowles on Music
Author: Timothy Mangan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597347983
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
It's an easy enough job if one has something to say, Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And Paul Bowles, indeed, had plenty to say about music. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself first and foremost as a composer.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597347983
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
It's an easy enough job if one has something to say, Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And Paul Bowles, indeed, had plenty to say about music. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself first and foremost as a composer.
Paul Bowles Music
Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher: EOS Music
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
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.
Publisher: EOS Music
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
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.
Conversations with Paul Bowles
Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878056507
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Collected interviews with the author of The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, and The Spider's House
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878056507
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Collected interviews with the author of The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, and The Spider's House
Travels
Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher: Sort of Books
ISBN: 1908745266
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
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 war, and for thirty years travelled in North Africa, Central America, Southeast Asia, Indian and Sri Lanka (where he bought an island). He wrote articles, essays and journals along the way - writing which ranks with his novels in its astute observation, dry wit and impeccable prose. Travels brings together for the first time Paul Bowles's travel writing and journals. It includes the full text of his book Their Heads Are Green along with thirty other pieces, previously unpublished in book form. They are accompanied by fifty photos from the Bowles archive.
Publisher: Sort of Books
ISBN: 1908745266
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
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 war, and for thirty years travelled in North Africa, Central America, Southeast Asia, Indian and Sri Lanka (where he bought an island). He wrote articles, essays and journals along the way - writing which ranks with his novels in its astute observation, dry wit and impeccable prose. Travels brings together for the first time Paul Bowles's travel writing and journals. It includes the full text of his book Their Heads Are Green along with thirty other pieces, previously unpublished in book form. They are accompanied by fifty photos from the Bowles archive.
A Distant Episode
Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061137383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A Distant Episode contains the best of Paul Bowles's short stories, as selected by the author. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Jay McInerney.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061137383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A Distant Episode contains the best of Paul Bowles's short stories, as selected by the author. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Jay McInerney.
The Sheltering Sky
Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241399157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
'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. Endeavouring 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. The results of this casually taken decision are both tragic and compelling.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241399157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
'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. Endeavouring 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. The results of this casually taken decision are both tragic and compelling.
Morocco
Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Points in Time
Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061139637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
In this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing expreience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader on a journey through the Moroccan centuries, pausing at points along the way to create resonant images of the country, it's landscapes, and the beliefs and characteristics of its inhabitants.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061139637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
In this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing expreience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader on a journey through the Moroccan centuries, pausing at points along the way to create resonant images of the country, it's landscapes, and the beliefs and characteristics of its inhabitants.