Collected Stories 1939 - 1976, Paul Bowles, 1979, 1st Edition 1st Printing, HC

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Collected Stories 1939 - 1976 Paul Bowles 1979 Introduction by Gore Vidal Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator. He became associated with the Moroccan city of Tangier, where he settled in 1947 and lived for 52 years to the end of his life. ... Paul Bowles is considered one of the artists to have shaped 20th-century literature and music. In his "Introduction" to Bowles's Collected Stories (1979) Gore Vidal ranked the short stories as "among the best ever written by an American", writing: "the floor to this ramshackle civilization that we have built cannot bear much longer our weight. It was Bowles's genius to suggest the horrors which lie beneath that floor, as fragile, in its way, as the sky that shelters us from a devouring vastness". ... In 1991, Bowles was awarded the annual Rea Award for the Short Story. The jury gave the following citation: "Paul Bowles is a storyteller of the utmost purity and integrity. He writes of a world before God became man; a world in which men and women in extremis are seen as components in a larger, more elemental drama. His prose is crystalline and his voice unique. Among living American masters of the short story, Paul Bowles is sui generis." --Wikipedia First Edition / First Printing indicated by the title page printed in color, the presence of a colophon page at the rear of the book (on the page following page 417), and the absence of any statement of subseq

• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Year: 1979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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