Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993
- ISBN-10
- 006206763X
- ISBN-13
- 9780062067630
- Series
- Travels
- Category
- Travel
- Pages
- 512
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-08-23
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Paul Bowles
Description
Inmore than forty essays and articles that range from Paris to Ceylon, Thailand to Kenya, and, of course, Morocco, the great twen-tieth-century American writer encapsulates his long and full life, and sheds light on his brilliant fiction. Whether he’s recalling the cold-water artists’ flats of Paris’s Left Bank or the sun-worshipping eccentrics of Tangier, Paul Bowles imbues every piece with a deep intelligence and the acute perspective of his rich experience of the world. Woven throughout are photographs from the renowned author’s private archive, which place him, his wife, the writer Jane Bowles, and their many friends and compatriots in the landscapes his essays bring so vividly to life. With an introduction by Paul Theroux and a chronology by Daniel Halpern
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