Points in Time

Bowles, Paul

ISBN 10: 0720605946 / ISBN 13: 9780720605945

Published by Peter Owen, London, 1982

About this Item

Hardcover, 92 pp. SIGNED by Bowles on the title page. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket (price clipped, spine is sunned). Protected in a mylar cover.

Seller Inventory # 286

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Points in Time
• Publisher: Peter Owen, London
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0720605946
• ISBN 13: 9780720605945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: near fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Literature

About this title

Synopsis

In this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing expreience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader on a journey through the Moroccan centuries, pausing at points along the way to create resonant images of the country, it's landscapes, and the beliefs and characteristics of its inhabitants.

About the Author

Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco. A devastatingly imaginative observer of the West's encounter with the East, he is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, and Up Above the World. In addition to being one of the most powerful postwar American novelists, Bowles was an acclaimed composer, a travel writer, a poet, a translator, and a short story writer. He died in Morocco in 1999.