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Learn about the life and works of Paul Bowles, who settled in Tangier, Morocco, in 1947 and became associated with the Beat Generation. Explore his musical compositions, novels, short stories, and translations of Arabic literature.
Paul Bowles was an American composer, translator, and author of novels and short stories set in exotic and violent settings. He was a leading figure of the Beat Generation and a longtime resident of Tangier, Morocco, where he wrote his best-known work, The Sheltering Sky.
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Nov 18, 1999 · Paul Bowles was a literary expatriate who lived in Tangiers and wrote novels, stories and travel essays. Explore his biography, ratings, reviews, quotes and books on Goodreads.
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Paul Bowles has 207 books on Goodreads with 127539 ratings. Paul Bowles’s most popular book is The Sheltering Sky.
Aug 30, 2009 · Paul Bowles’s first and best novel, “The Sheltering Sky,” published 60 years ago this fall, was a book few saw coming. Its author was better known as a composer.
Paul Bowles. 3.89. 28,984 ratings2,227 reviews. In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them.
Feb 24, 2016 · In a 1975 interview, the poet Daniel Halpern asked the author and composer Paul Bowles why he’d spent such a significant chunk of his life scrambling about the globe.
