Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles
Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles
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Let It Come Down
A Novel

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Tom Zahner, Raphael Corkhill

Unabridged: 12 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/13/2022

Synopsis

In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism.

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 Duffy on November 08, 2014

It's not clear to me whether Dyar goes to Tangiers to kill himself, or if he ends up killing himself because he went to Tangier. Either way, he is aptly named, and his story is both creepy and surprisingly unengaging. At times, I got the feeling we were looking at him like an insect on a pin. That s......more

Goodreads review by Adam on December 21, 2007

A grim noir that soon transforms into scorching existential journey through identity and reality. Post war Tangiers with its trash markets, spies, battling governments, debauched party people, drugs, criminals, and the clash of Muslim and Christian culture, makes a stellar background for this chilli......more

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