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You are buying 3 BOOKS about and by World Famous Author PAUL BOWLES:

they are as follows

 PAUL BOWLES A LIFE

By Virginia Spencer Carr

Published by Scribner, New York, London

2004  FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING

This Book is a clean HARDCOVER in FINE CONDITION

with 410 pages, index with 6 pages of black and white photographs.

The Dust Jacket in Fine Condition.

CONTENTS

1: The Early Childhood of Paul Bowles (1910-1918)

2: Bowles's Move to a New Neighborhood and His Discovery of the Arts (1917-1927)

3: Paul Bowles, a Runaway to Paris (1928-1931)

4: Bowles's Return to Europe (1931-1933)

5: A Lovesick Bowles in Algeria. Disillusionment ,Estrangement, and Success in New York (1933-1936)

6: Paul Bowles Meets Jane Auer. They Fall in Love and Marry (1937-1940)

7: Paul and Jane in Acapulco, Where They Meet Tennessee Williams (1940-1943)

8: Writing Music Reviews, Music for Broadway, Fiction, and Translations (1943-1947)     

9: Bowles's Departure for Morocco and Return to New York to Compose Music for A Streetcar Named Desire and Summer and Smoke (1947-1948)          

10: Bowles Returns to the Desert with Jane, and They Renew Their Dedication to Writing (1949-1951)        

11: Mishaps, Chance, Intervention of Fate, and Jane's Elusive Third Act of In the Summer House (1952-1954)

12: Burroughs in Tangier and Bowles's Several Visits to His Island Off Ceylon (1954-1959)        

13: Bowles Records Indigenous Music, Translates, and Survives As Best He Can (1959-1966)      

14: Six Years of Abject Sadness (1967-1973)

15: Without Jane (1973-1999)        

26: Coda  

ADDITIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS        

CHRONOLOGY  

NOTES    

INDEX   

FROM THE COVER

Paul Bowles-novelist, composer, expatriate, rebel, and bisexual-is one of the most compelling and mythologized figures in twentieth-century American culture. Born in 1910, Bowles grew up in Jamaica, New York, a precocious child who could read by the age of three and was writing stories within the year. At eighteen, he embarked on an artistic journey that led him all over the world.

Remarkably gifted, Bowles entered the vibrant art and literary world of the late 1920s and early 1930s as a poet and composer. He studied music with composer Aaron Copland and was a friend of Gertrude Stein, W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Gore

Vidal, Truman Capote, Ned Rorem, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Stephen Spender, and Christopher Isherwood (who named his character Sally Bowles after him). Over the course of his career he composed scores for films and innumerable plays, including many works by Tennessee Williams and Orson Welles. It wasn't until after he married Jane Auer that he began writing fiction: The Delicate Prey, The Spider's House, Let It Come Down, and The Sheltering Sky, which he wrote after moving to Tangier in 1947, and which was immediately hailed  as a classic. It is Bowles's flamboyant life that most fascinates

people - his friendships, his appetites, his controversial marriage, his leftist politics, his voluntary exile to Morocco, and his stature as a countercultural and gay icon. Through ten years of research, thirteen trips to Bowles's home in Tangier, extensive interviews with some two hundred of Bowles's acquaintances, and her own intimate relationship with Bowles, who died in 1999, Virginia Spencer Carr has gathered a wealth of information about Bowles and has written a masterful, riveting, and definitive account of an extraordinary life.

Virginia Spencer Carr is the acclaimed biographer of Carson McCullers and John Dos Passos. She holds the John B. and Elena Diaz-Verson Amos Distinguished Chair in English at Georgia State University.

PAUL BOWLES: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: WITHOUT STOPPING

By Paul Bowles

Published by Ecco Press, New York 1985

This book is a soft cover in near fine condition with 377 pages, index with 22 pages of black and white photographs.

This autobiography is a chronicle of only the first fifty-odd years of a life that went on for another three decades.

So much happens in *Without Stopping* that Bowles can no more afford to dwell too long on any one episode in the telling of his life than he seemed to dwell in the living of it.

FROM THE COVER == "And there was Paris, with the trees in the Tuileries beginning to bud and the sweet smell of the Metro disinfectant wafting up from under the ground just as I had 'remembered it a thousand times during the past twenty months. I had only three weeks to spend there before Aaron [Copland] would come from New York to pick me up and take me on to Berlin. One of the first things I did was to go around to 27 rue de Fleurus and find Gertrude Stein's door. When I rang the bell, the maid answered and said that Mademoiselle was busy. I could hear the sound of women's voices coming down from the stairwell, and I said I had just arrived from America and must see her, if only for a moment. The girl made me wait outside. Soon Gertrude Stein appeared, looking just as she did in her photographs, except that the expression of her face was rather more pleasant. 'What is it? Who are you?' she said. I told her and heard for the first time her wonderfully hearty laugh. She opened the door so that I could go in. Then Alice Toklas came downstairs, and we sat in the big studio hung with Picassos.

'I was sure from your letters that you were an elderly gentleman, at least seventy-five: Gertrude Stein told me. 'A highly eccentric elderly gentleman: added Alice Toklas. 'We were certain of it: They asked me to dinner for the following night:'

Here are some of the other people Paul Bowles writes about in Without Stopping: W.H. Auden, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, Tallulah Bankhead, Djuna Barnes, John Cage, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg, Peggy Guggenheim, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Kerouac, Carson McCullers, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Susan Sontag, Alfred Stieglitz, Virgil Thomson, Gore Vidal, Lucchino Visconti, Orson Welles, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams.

THE SHELTERING SKY

By Paul Bowles

Published by ECCO, New York, 1977

This book is a Soft Cover in fine condition with 318 pages.

With a New Preface by Paul Bowles

Bowles's landmark First Novel, a tale of Westerners abroad in North Africa, one of the seminal novels of the Beat generation and an influential book in the decades since

 CONTENTS

BOOK 1 : TEA IN THE SAHARA

BOOK 2 : THE EARTH’S SHARP EDGE

BOOK THREE : THE SKY

FROM THE PUBLISHER ==The strange journey of a married couple and their best friend to a coastal city in North Africa and to the world of the great desert behind it: the Sahara, where civilization ends and the moral landscape of our own environment begins.

After ten years of marriage, Kit and Port Moresby have drifted apart and are sexually estranged. Avoiding the chaos of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, they travel to the remote North African desert. Port hopes the journey will reunite them, but although they share similar emotions, they are divided by their conflicting outlooks on life. Kit fears the desert while Port is drawn to its beauty and remoteness. Oblivious to its dangers, he falls ill and they discover a hostile, violent world that threatens to destroy them both.

REVIEWS : A beautiful, yet disturbing, tale of two people traveling into the Sahara. Although the couple appear to be smart, independent travelers, they are not equipped to travel into the desert. Thus, each time hardship strikes, pieces of their comfortable lives and the identities they had constructed seem to peel away. The shifting sands and unforgiving sun are metaphors for the shocking and vulgar circumstances that befall them. I think it's a symptom of twentieth-century moral dissolution. The deeper into the Sahara the travelers go, the more they lose their grip on Western civilization. There's a wonderful scene in a hotel room where Kit removes every item from her luggage and surrounds herself with her stuff: she's losing her cultural identity, the Western rationalism that was programmed into her. Not to mention that all three travelers are decadent epicures - the morals of Christendom that endured for centuries are seen to be crumbling, if not already disintegrated, in this book. Brilliantly paced, the novel takes the characters through cycles much like those of an addict — from being dazed to being frenzied to being frozen. Despite the fact that some find The Sheltering Sky reminiscent of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the characters in this book ultimately have options. Again, a fantastic novel.

REVIEWS : In this classic wor  of psychological terror Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture - and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. "It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II. The story is brilliantly told against the vast, shimmering, desolate space of the desert, that contains and dominates the action."

MORE ABOUT Paul Frederic Bowles (December 3, 1910 - November 18, 1999), was an American composer, author, and traveler . Bowles was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. When Bowles was 8, his father bought a phonograph and classic records; Bowles was interested in jazz but such records were forbidden in the house. About this time his family bought a piano and Bowles studied theory, singing, and piano. He continued to keep a diary of imaginary goings-on during this time, and also wrote a daily newspaper. Bowles entered the University of Virginia in 1928, where his interests included T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Prokofiev, Duke Ellington, Gregorian chants, and the blues, and he published two items in transition. He also heard music by George Antheil and Henry Cowell. In April 1929 he dropped out of school to make his first trip to Paris where he worked as a switchboard operator for the Herald Tribune. He returned home in July and started writing Without Stopping, his first mature book. He left college without a degree in 1930.

On a subsequent trip to France in 1931, he became a part of Gertrude Stein's literary and artistic circle and on her advice, that summer he made his first visit to Tangier with his friend and music teacher the composer Aaron Copland. In Berlin, he met Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood, who gives the name Bowles to the heroine of Goodbye to Berlin. The following year he returned to North Africa and traveled throughout other parts of Morocco, the Sahara, Algeria and Tunisia. Throughout the next decade, Bowles composed a good body of music including sonatas, song cycles, and music for stage productions (including Doctor Faustus directed by Orson Welles, the orchestration for George Balanchine's Yankee Clipper at Lincoln Kirstein's request), and also made early recordings of North African music.

 In 1938 he married author and playwright Jane Auer (Feb. 22, 1917 - May 4, 1973), and after a brief sojourn in France they were prominent among the literary figures of New York throughout the 1940s. In 1945 he unexpectedly began writing prose again, beginning with a few short stories including A Distant Episode. He also translated Jorge Luis Borges at this time, and his translation of the play No Exit (entitled Huis-clos in French) by Jean-Paul Sartre, directed by John Huston, won a Drama Critic's Award.

The subsequent year, he received an advance for a novel, and began writing The Sheltering Sky, which quickly rose to the New York Times best-seller list when published by New Directions. Also in 1947, he moved permanently to Tangier, and his wife Jane followed him there in 1948. The Bowleses became iconoclasts of the Tangerinos — American and European expatriates centered in Tangier. Prominent literary friends visited Paul and Jane Bowles in Tangier beginning in the late 1940s, including Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal. The Beat writers Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs followed in the mid-1950s. In Morocco, Bowles concentrated on writing novels, short stories and travel pieces, and wrote incidental music for nine plays presented by the American School of Tangier. In 1952 Bowles bought the tiny island of Taprobane, off the coast of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where he wrote much of his novel The Spider's House, returning to Tangier in the warmer months. In 1961, Bowles began tape-recording and translating works of Moroccan authors and story-tellers, including stories by Ahmed Yacoubi, Larbi Layachi (under the pseudonym Driss ben Hamed Charhadi), and Mohamed Mrabet. He also translated short stories and diary entries by Swiss adventurer and writer Isabelle Eberhardt (The Oblivion Seekers). After the death of Jane Bowles in 1973 in Malaga, Spain, Bowles continued to live in Tangier, writing and receiving visitors to his modest apartment. In 1995 Paul Bowles made a rare and final return to New York for a festival of his music at the Lincoln Center and a symposium and interview held at the New School for Social Research. Paul Bowles died of heart failure at the Italian Hospital in Tangier on November 18, 1999 at the age of 88.


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