Points in Time

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

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

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

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

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