The Stories of Paul Bowles

The Stories of Paul BowlesThe short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In Pastor Dowe at Tecat , a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In Call at Coraz n, an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their honeymoon

The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry--possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In Pastor Dowe at Tecat , a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In Call at Coraz n, an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their honeymoon in a South American jungle. In Allal, a boy's drug-induced metamorphosis into a deadly serpent leads to his violent death. Here also are some of Bowles's most famous works, including The Delicate Prey, a grimly satisfying tale of vengeance, and A Distant Episode, which Tennessee Williams proclaimed a masterpiece.