A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories

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.

Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 06/13/2006
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.14w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780061137389

About the Author
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.