Too Far from Home

Name: Too Far from Home
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Paul Bowles
ISBN: 9780063136458

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Tom Zahner, Raphael Corkhill, Mike Ortego, Cheryl Smith, Abby Craden, Graham Halstead

Unabridged: 24 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/13/2022

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy, Collections & Anthologies, Nonfiction, Literary Collections

Synopsis

A striking collection of stories, poems, letters, travel essays, journal entries, excerpts from three novels, and more—including the complete text of The Sheltering Sky—from one of the most revered authors of the twentieth century

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 Simon A.

Wow. REALLY powerful stuff here that will make you a litte squimish at times. Overall though, you've got to respect Bowles's balls (you like how I did that?) This has got all of his best stuff. A worthwhile read. I loved this quote: "The eyes want rest but the head is no pillow."......more

Goodreads review by Aylin

entering into another space and time. really feels like traveling. i especially like the story with the giant run on sentence! i really got a visceral sense of the character :)......more