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Paul Frederic Bowles ( / boʊlz /; December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999 [1]) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier in the Interzone, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life.
Paul Bowles (born December 30, 1910, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 18, 1999, Tangier, Morocco) was an American-born composer, translator, and author of novels and short stories in which violent events and psychological collapse are recounted in a detached and elegant style.
May 11, 2018 · The Sheltering Sky was Paul Bowles’s first novel, and although he honed his art almost to his dying day—novels, poems, stories, translations, as well as musical scores—it was this strange, uneven, and somewhat hallucinatory novel, and a handful of disturbing short stories written around the same time, that seemed to locate his ...
Nov 19, 1999 · Paul Bowles was an intensely private man, possessed of a dry New England sense of humour and a capacity for friendship which was at odds with his public persona as a detached, often...
Nov 19, 1999 · Paul Bowles, the novelist, composer, poet and quintessential outsider of American literature, died of a heart attack yesterday in a hospital in Tangier, Morocco.
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.
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. 28,615 ratings2,186 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.
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May 23, 1974 · Paul Bowles: The Rolling Stone Interview. Conversations in Morocco with the expatriate author and composer. By Michael Rogers. May 23, 1974. Paul Bowles in Morocco. Ulf Andersen/Getty...
Jan 20, 2017 · January 20, 2017. View all. Major works: The Sheltering Sky • The Delicate Prey and Other Stories • Let It Come Down • Up Above the World • Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue. Read a passage from The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. Books. Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Later Writings LOA N°135.
