{"product_id":"9781931082204","title":"Paul Bowles: Collected Stories and Later Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The Library of America has made it easier for readers to enjoy Bowles’s exotic literary harvest.” — \u003ci\u003eThe Columbus Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Bowles was a composer, writer, and an American expatriate who spent most of the last five decades of his life in Tangier. According \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Sheltering Sky\u003c\/i\u003e” (\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“All the tales are a variety of detective story,” wrote Bowles of his first collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Delicate Prey and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eA Hundred Camels in the Courtyard\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), \u003ci\u003eThe Time of Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e (1967), \u003ci\u003eThings Gone and Things Still Here\u003c\/i\u003e (1977), and \u003ci\u003eMidnight Mass \u003c\/i\u003e(1981), all included here along with a selection of his final stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume also contains \u003ci\u003eUp Above the World\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eTheir Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue\u003c\/i\u003e (1963).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060932624624,"sku":"9781931082204","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781931082204_p0.jpg?v=1763638096","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931082204","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}