In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles, (Editor) Jeffrey Miller

ISBN 10: 0374524599 / ISBN 13: 9780374524593

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995

Seller Inventory # 1315170

Synopsis:

This extraordinary collection of correspondence by Paul Bowles spans eight decades and provides an evolving portrait of an artist renowned for his privacy. From his earliest extant letter, written at the age of four, to his precocious effusions to Aaron Copeland and to Gertrude Stein; from his meditations on mescaline as relayed to Ned Rorem, to his intensely moving letters to Jane Bowles during her illness, In Touch fills in the lacunae left by previous biographers and offers a rare look at the many aspects of Bowles's brilliant career―as composer, novelist, short-story master, travel writer, translator, ethnographer, and literary critic.

Here is Bowles on the genesis of his first novel, The Sheltering Sky; on his distaste for Western melodies and his dogged attempts to record indigenous Moroccan music; on the Beats, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Tennessee Williams; on the nature and craft of writing; on Bernardo Bertolucci, David Byrne, and Sting; on the decline of American and the challenges of living in North Africa. Gossipy, reflective, enlightening, and always entertaining, In Touch stands as an epistolary autobiography of one of the legendary writers of our time, and a unique chronicle of the twentieth-century avant-garde.

About the Authors: PAUL BOWLES is Professor of Economics and International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. He is also affiliated with universities in Australia, China and Mexico. He has published in the areas of globalization, regionalism, development and the political economy of China's reforms.

Jeffrey Miller is the publisher of Cadmus Editions in Tiburon, California, and is the author of Paul Bowles: A Descriptive Bibliography, and editor of In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles. He has been collecting the Bowles' letters for nearly twenty years.

Bibliographic Details

Title: In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good