| A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories Contributor(s): Bowles, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061137383 ISBN-13: 9780061137389 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: "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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6.14" W x 9.16" (0.95 lbs) 368 pages |
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| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bowles, Paul: - 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. |