Paul Bowles's classic collection of short stories 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 ...
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Paul Bowles's classic collection of short stories 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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Very good in good jacket. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good or better with expected toning of pages, jacket good plus with general moderate wear and light loss and rubbing to corners, tips and extremities, spine of jacket green whereas front is an earth brown.
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Near Fine. Near fine in a good only priceclipped dj. (A few small spots on black stained top edge. Edges of dj. flaps trimmed. Spine on dj. discolored green as usual with this title, with shallow chipping at spine ends. Faded tape ghost at bottom of spine on dj. Several edge tears) Author's SECOND book.
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Fine in very good jacket. 8vo, brick red cloth, d.w. by E. McKnight Kauffer (sunned on the spine & very lightly edge-worn). New York: Random House, (1950). First Edition.
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Fine. Fine in a priceclipped Nf. dj. (Spine on dj. has discolored from brown to beige as is nearly always the case. A few tiny spots of shelfwear to edges of dj. ) Author's SECOND book. (B)
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition thus. Octavo. 307pp. Topedge lightly foxed else about fine in a lightly worn and spine-sunned, very good or better dust jacket. Signed by Bowles on the title page. Miller A4d; only 1, 000 clothbound copies were issued. Originally published in 1950.
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