It was Gore Vidal who suggested that Virginia Spencer Carr postpone her work on Tennessee Williams's biography in order to write the life of Paul Bowles, who was still alive at the time. Over a decade later Carr has written an erudite and compelling biography of Paul Bowles, the great American composer and writer. Born in 1910, Bowles grew up in New York and at a young age embarked upon an artistic journey that lead him all over the world - from Paris to Berlin, from Ceylon to Morocco. He studied music with composer Aaron ...
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It was Gore Vidal who suggested that Virginia Spencer Carr postpone her work on Tennessee Williams's biography in order to write the life of Paul Bowles, who was still alive at the time. Over a decade later Carr has written an erudite and compelling biography of Paul Bowles, the great American composer and writer. Born in 1910, Bowles grew up in New York and at a young age embarked upon an artistic journey that lead him all over the world - from Paris to Berlin, from Ceylon to Morocco. He studied music with composer Aaron Copland, befriended a generation of artists including Gertrude Stein and W.H. Auden, and married the writer Jane Auer. He composed music for plays and movies, wrote poetry, short stories and novels including THE SHELTERING SKY and THE DELICATE PREY. He captured the imaginations of American counter culturalists - both straight and gay - when he took up residence in Morocco, and began writing about it. Through years of research, extensive interviews and her friendship with Paul Bowles, Carr has gathered a great wealth of information about Bowles's childhood, his career, his marriage and his personal relationships. With her incredible depth of knowledge about, and intimacy with, Bowles and the details of his life, Carr has written an extraordinary biography of this most complex of American cultural icons.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. A clean and unmarked hardback with an unclipped dust jacket now protected in a new archival-quality, removable Mylar plastic cover. This nice copy has an "opened-only-once-or--twice look & feel with no crushes to the boards' corners. Black-and-white photos. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999. 409-stated pages.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Paul Bowles--novelist, composer expatriate, rebel and bisexual--is one of the most compelling and mythologized figures in twentieth-century American culture. Cream-color boards, black spine with gold-color lettering, 409 pp., photos, illustrated jacket. Very tiny corner creases on pp. 307-14, otherwise like new with a crisp, clean jacket.
