The Delicate Prey Deluxe Edition
And Other Stories
From master storyteller Paul Bowles comes a new addition to ecco's the art of the story series—essential reading for any witness to the magic of the short form, writes vendela vidaAll the tales are a variety of detective story, writes Bowles of this, his first short story collection, in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is in the motivation for the characters' behavior. In such stories as A Distant Episode and How Many Midnights, Bowles pushes human character beyond socially defined limits, mapping a transformed—often horribly transformed—reality. Bowles captures the duality of human frailty and cruelty in these seventeen taut an…
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Weitere Autoren: Vida, Vendela (Vorb.)
- ISBN: 978-0-06-239385-2
- EAN: 9780062393852
- Produktnummer: 17085386
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Über den Autor
Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco. A devastatingly imaginative observer of the West's encounter with the East, he is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, and Up Above the World. In addition to being one of the most powerful postwar American novelists, Bowles was an acclaimed composer, a travel writer, a poet, a translator, and a short story writer. He died in Morocco in 1999.Vendela Vida is the award-winning author of six books, including Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name and The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty. She is a founding editor of The Believer magazine, and co-editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers and Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence, a collection of interviews with musicians. She was a founding board member of 826 Valencia, the San Francisco writing center for youth, and lives in the Bay Area with her family.
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