{"product_id":"9780062004499","title":"The Stories of Paul Bowles","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Tecaté,\" a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In \"Call at Corazón,\" 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105451720944,"sku":"9780062004499","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062004499_p0.jpg?v=1763624918","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062004499","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}