Points in Time, Paul Bowles
Points in Time, Paul Bowles
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Points in Time

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Raphael Corkhill

Unabridged: 1 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/13/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In this intense and brilliant book, Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing experience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader on a journey through the Moroccan centuries, pausing at points along the way to create resonant images of the country, it's landscapes, and the beliefs and characteristics of its inhabitants.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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 Rob on March 14, 2015

Paul Bowles was a polymath, musician, writer, lover of North Africa, best-known now for The Sheltering Sky, but whose pieces on Morocco included here provide a brisk and knowledgeable background to the country and its mores. That said, this is an odd book which slaps together a few essays with some......more

Goodreads review by Yigal on March 21, 2024

quite a strange book. not realy stories more bits of ideas, reflections, some nice, a lot of them bizzare but what intetesting is that it brings out Morocco.......more

Goodreads review by Mat on January 31, 2016

This was my introduction to Paul Bowles. I have heard many great things about Bowles from other writers such as William Burroughs and Ira Cohen so figured it was about time that I checked him out. If James A. Michener had been a short storywriter and had decided to write a book on Morocco, then maybe......more

Goodreads review by Robert on July 04, 2012

Not surprisingly as Bowles was a composer before he was a writer, these very brief stories of Morocco are almost musical. Bowles most certainly gained a sense of place that comes through mystically.......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on November 11, 2011

The pieces included in Points in Time are brief and dreamlike, and entirely effective in painting a historical portrait of Bowles' adopted homeland, Morocco. Although written twenty-five years ago, these short prose poems are surprisingly effective at exploring the divide between Islam and the West,......more