| Points in Time: Tales from Morocco Contributor(s): Bowles, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061139637 ISBN-13: 9780061139635 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 83016571 |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 5.46" W x 8.02" (0.20 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing experience, 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bowles, Paul: - 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. |