Too Far from Home: The Selected Writings of Paul Bowles
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The definitive Paul Bowles reader--a summing up of a brilliant and diverse literary career, featuring an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates.
"Bowles is one of the most important writers of our times." -Madison Smartt Bell, Chicago Tribune
Too Far From Home brings together a dozen of Paul Bowles' best stories; excerpts from three novels, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, and Up Above the World; excerpts from nonfiction works like Points in Time, Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue, Days, and Without Stopping; the entire text of the novel The Sheltering Sky; as well as a group of poems, a selection of previously unpublished letters, and an interview conducted by Daniel Halpern.
A striking collection from one of the most revered authors of the twentieth century, Too Far From Home is the perfect introduction to the work of Paul Bowles.
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