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- No DJ. Octavo. 307pgs. attractive prev. owner bookplate. Clay cloth with spider web design on front panel. light toning to the pages, An acclaimed collection of 17 eerie, haunting, stories.
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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.