A Distant Episode, Paul Bowles
A Distant Episode, Paul Bowles
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A Distant Episode

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Tom Zahner, Raphael Corkhill

Unabridged: 15 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/13/2022

Synopsis

A Distant Episode contains the best of Paul Bowles's short stories, as selected by the author. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Jay McInerney.

About Paul Bowles

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim

Upon finishing The Sheltering Sky, I was reluctant to leave Bowles’ deeply engaging northern Africa behind, so I read his story, “A Distant Episode,” thinking I would take advantage of the opportunity to contemplate the differences between short stories and novels. It was a good call, I believe, bec......more

Goodreads review by Sharon

Man oh man. The horror in some of these tales, particularly the ones set in Morocco, a place I like to visit but on whose streets I don't always feel completely at ease. Had I read these first... I'd still have gone, but would have jumped out of my skin at every untoward advance. And would not have......more

Goodreads review by Roman

lyrically lovely abjection......more

Goodreads review by Janelle

Set in North Africa, a dark and violent story highlighting cultural differences.......more

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