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Delicate Prey : And Other Stories by Paul Bowles (2006, Trade Paperback)
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Exemplary storles that reveal the blzarre, the dlsturblng, the perllous, and the wlse ln other clvlllzatlons -- from one of Amerlca's most lmportant wrlters of the twentleth century.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100061137340
ISBN-139780061137341
eBay Product ID (ePID)52023514
Product Key Features
Book TitleDelicate Prey : and Other Stories
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Publication Year2006
GenreFiction
AuthorPaul Bowles
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.7 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"Paul Bowles has opened the world of Hip. He let in the murder, the drugs, the incest, the death of the Square...the call of the orgy, the end of civilization."--Norman Mailer""The Delicate Prey" is in fact one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature, ...Bowles's tales are at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth. His language has a purity of line, a pise and authority entirely its own, capable of instantly modulating from farce to horror without a ruffle and without giving any signal of delight in itself. It never goes on parade."--Tobia Wolff, "Esquire""Paul Bowles's sense of what can go wrong is as acute as that of any American writer since Poe. It's not simply the subject matter but the pitiless clarity, the unblinking regard in the face of human frailty and cruelty, that is so disquieting in Bowles's work. Whereas the terror in Poe seems to arise from an overheated romantic imagination suffering the torments it bodies forth, Bowles's sensibility is calssical in is aloofness, his prose as hard-edged and dazzling as a desert landscape at noon."--Jay McInerney, "Vanity Fair", "Paul Bowles's sense of what can go wrong is as acute as that of any American writer since Poe. It's not simply the subject matter but the pitiless clarity, the unblinking regard in the face of human frailty and cruelty, that is so disquieting in Bowles's work. Whereas the terror in Poe seems to arise from an overheated romantic imagination suffering the torments it bodies forth, Bowles's sensibility is calssical in is aloofness, his prose as hard-edged and dazzling as a desert landscape at noon." -- Jay McInerney, "Vanity Fair" "The Delicate Prey is in fact one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature,...Bowles's tales are at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth. His language has a purity of line, a pise and authority entirely its own, capable of instantly modulating from farce to horror without a ruffle and without giving any signal of delight in itself. It never goes on parade." -- Tobia Wolff, "Esquire" "Paul Bowles has opened the world of Hip. He let in the murder, the drugs, the incest, the death of the Square...the call of the orgy, the end of civilization." -- Norman Mailer
