In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles

Author:   Paul Bowles ,  Tom Zahner ,  Timothy Andrés Pabon ,  Richard Trinder
Publisher:   HarperCollins
ISBN:  

9798212037679


Publication Date:   13 September 2022
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Our Price $203.28 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles


Audio Format Add your own review!

Overview

This extraordinary collection of correspondence by Paul Bowles spans eight decades and provides an evolving portrait of an artist renowned for his privacy. From his earliest extant letter, written at the age of four, to his precocious effusions to Aaron Copeland and to Gertrude Stein; from his meditations on mescaline as relayed to Ned Rorem, to his intensely moving letters to Jane Bowles during her illness, In Touch fills in the lacunae left by previous biographers and offers a rare look at the many aspects of Bowles's brilliant career--as composer, novelist, short-story master, travel writer, translator, ethnographer, and literary critic. Here is Bowles on the genesis of his first novel, The Sheltering Sky; on his distaste for Western melodies and his dogged attempts to record indigenous Moroccan music; on the Beats, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Tennessee Williams; on the nature and craft of writing; on Bernardo Bertolucci, David Byrne, and Sting; on the decline of American and the challenges of living in North Africa. Gossipy, reflective, enlightening, and always entertaining, In Touch stands as an epistolary autobiography of one of the legendary writers of our time, and a unique chronicle of the twentieth-century avant-garde. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Full Product Details

Author:   Paul Bowles ,  Tom Zahner ,  Timothy Andrés Pabon ,  Richard Trinder
Publisher:   HarperCollins
Imprint:   HarperCollins
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 14.40cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9798212037679


Publication Date:   13 September 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

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. Timothy Andrés Pabon is an English- and Spanish-speaking voice-over artist who has worked extensively in advertising and audiobook narration. He has had acting roles on House of Cards and The Wire. As a stage actor, he has worked off-Broadway and his regional credits include Center Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, and the Hippodrome.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

ls

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List