Delicate Prey: And Other Stories
Autor Paul Bowles Cuvânt înainte de Vendela Vidaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iun 2006
“All the tales are a variety of detective story,” wrote Bowles of this, his first short story collection, “in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is in the motivation for the charcters’ 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.
Bowles captures the duality of human frailty and cruelty in these seventeen taut and atmospheric tales, written between 1939 and 1949. Brutal and gorgeous, visceral yet profound, this timeless collection is “one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature. . . at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. . . . His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirely its own, capable of instantly modulating from farce to horror without a ruffle” (Tobias Wolff).
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ISBN-13: 9780061137341
ISBN-10: 0061137340
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
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ISBN-10: 0061137340
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Ecco
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Notă biografică
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.