Best Selling Books by Paul Bowles

“The Library of America has made it easier for readers to enjoy Bowles’s exotic literary harvest.” — The Columbus Dispatch Paul Bowles was a composer, writer, and an American expatriate who spent most of the last five decades of his life in Tangier. According The Boston Globe, he was “one of the literary class acts of the twentieth century.” This Library of America volume, containing his stories and travel writings, is one of two volumes in the first annotated edition of Paul Bowles’s work and is a “treasure trove for readers who haven’t explored beyond The Sheltering Sky” (The Seattle Times). “All the tales are a variety of detective story,” wrote Bowles of his first collection, The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (1950), “in which the reader is the detective; the mystery is the motivation for the characters’ behavior.” In such stories as “A Distant Episode” and “How Many Midnights,” Bowles pushes human character beyond socially defined limits and maps a transformed (often horribly transformed) reality. A master of gothic terror and an acute and at times diabolically funny observer of manners and motives both American and Moroccan, Bowles confirmed his mastery of the short story in such volumes as A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962), The Time of Friendship (1967), Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977), and Midnight Mass (1981), all included here along with a selection of his final stories. This volume also contains Up Above the World (1966), a frightening novella set in Latin America in which a trusting American couple are lured into an annihilating trap, and the informed and fascinating travel book Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963). LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Traces the author''s journeys to the remote parts of North Africa, Indonesia, and central Asia, during which he observed how the local cultures were virtually untouched by the modern world''s materialism and corruption. Reprint.

This edition presents a short story by Paul Bowles, illustrated by the photographer Vittorio Santoro.

This book provides an innovative and systematic analysis of the implications of the theories of globalization for national currencies; and critically examines whether, as a result, the world is heading for fewer currencies.

As part of the series "Socialism and Social Movements", this volume explores the conditions and prospects of China moving toward a type of developmental state. The lessons of economic and political reform in Eastern Europe are discussed in relation to the overall topic.

International trade must be analysed within the historical context within which it occurs. Behind the statistics on trade flows lie power structures, class interests and international hierarchies. These change over time and how countries respond to them has critical implications for their citizen’s well-being. In this book, the history of trade in Australia, Canada and Mexico is analysed. Trade agreements are analysed in detail to explore the new forms that dependence and subordination have taken. Arguing that the free trade agreements are significantly biased in favour of the United States, the contributors analyse how each of the three countries are being subject to specific forms of re-peripheralisation and examine possible alternatives for a progressive future based on an integration in the global economy which enhances, rather than limits, democracy and social justice. By providing an historical and critical account of trade policy in the three countries, the book provides a welcome antidote to the ahistorical accounts of free trade supporters.

The Answer Is Still No is an important, urgent book that compiles interviews with people who live along the route of the proposed Enbridge pipeline in Northern British Columbia. The oil pipeline and supertankers – linking the tar sands of Alberta to the demand of the growing Asian market – are a key component of Canada’s strategy of natural resource extraction. But for the people living along the proposed pipeline route, Enbridge poses a massive environmental risk, which threatens their way of life. This edited collection takes the passionate words and voices of twelve citizens and activists and results in one powerful position when it comes to blind economic development at the expense of our environment and communities: The answer is still “no.”

Claudio Bravo is one of the world''s greatest hyperrealist painters, but such a label is too simple and insufficient for his dramatic, enigmatic work.

Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un joven y refinado matrimonio de Nueva York, Port y Kit Moresby, viaja al desierto norteafricano acompañado de su amigo Tunner. Bajo el impresionante paisaje que los rodea se esconden los peligros de una cultura que les es completamente ajena y un entorno natural hostil. Poco a poco, el vacío y la crueldad del lugar los conducen hasta los límites de la razón. El cielo protector es la obra más aclamada de Paul Bowles y una de las cumbres de la literatura americana del siglo XX. Traducida íntegramente de nuevo, la novela incluye hoy el prólogo escrito por Bowles para la última edición americana que preparó en vida. Tennessee Williams, en una elogiosa crítica escrita para The New York Times Book Review en 1949, dijo de la obra: «En su aspecto externo, la novela es la narración de una asombrosa aventura. En su aspecto interno, El cielo protector es una alegoría de la aventura espiritual del hombre plenamente consciente en la vida moderna.»

Nella fresca campagna di Cold Point non si incontrano case per chilometri e chilometri. Rifugiarvisi, portare tuo figlio lontano da scuola e distrazioni, sembra la soluzione migliore per ricercare quel rapporto perduto. Eppure, nelle placide acque del lago di Cold Point potrebbero emergere turbamenti a lungo sommersi. E potrebbe essere impossibile celarli ai pochi ma vigili occhi che scrutano l''estraneo.Tratto da “La delicata preda”, pubblicato da Feltrinelli. Numero di caratteri: 53352.

World-weary Anita escapes her routine NY life and joins her brother in the African desert, but here the boundaries of her world disintegrate and she finally is compelled to return to what she knows.