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Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Later Writings

Edited by Daniel Halpern

“The Library of America has made it easier for readers to enjoy Bowles’s exotic literary harvest.” — The Columbus Dispatch

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News Celebrate the centennial of Paul Bowles, author, composer, translator
December 27, 2016

Paul Bowles was a composer, writer, and an American expatriate who spent most of the last five decades of his life in Tangier. According The Boston Globe, 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 The Sheltering Sky“ (The Seattle Times).

“All the tales are a variety of detective story,” wrote Bowles of his first collection, The Delicate Prey and Other Stories (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.

A 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 A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard (1962), The Time of Friendship (1967), Things Gone and Things Still Here (1977), and Midnight Mass (1981), all included here along with a selection of his final stories.

This volume also contains Up Above the World (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 Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue (1963).

Daniel Halpern, volume editor, is the editorial director of ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollins, and has published numerous books of poems, including Something Shining. He was Paul Bowles’s neighbor in Tangier in the 1960s, and, with Bowles’s help, founded the literary magazine Antaeus.

Visit the official Paul Bowles Web site

This Library of America series edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

Paul Bowles: Collected Stories & Later Writings is kept in print by a gift from the Florence Gould Foundation to the Guardians of American Letters Fund.
Table of Contents

The Delicate Prey and Other Stories
At Paso Rojo
Pastor Dowe at Tacaté
Call at Corazón
Under the Sky
Señor Ong and Señor Ha
The Circular Valley
The Echo
The Scorpion
The Fourth Day Out from Santa Cruz
Pages from Cold Point
You Are Not I
How Many Midnights
A Thousand Days for Mokhtar
Tea on the Mountain
By the Water
The Delicate Prey
A Distant Episode

A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
A Friend of the World
He of the Assembly
The Story of Lahcen and Idir
The Wind at Beni Midar

New Stories from The Time of Friendship
The Time of Friendship
The Successor
The Hours After Noon
The Hyena
The Garden
Doña Faustina
Tapiama
If I Should Open My Mouth
The Frozen Fields

Things Gone and Things Still Here
Allal
Mejdoub
You Have Left Your Lotus Pods on the Bus
The Fqih
Istikhara, Anaya, Medagan and the Medaganat
The Waters of Izli
Afternoon with Antaeus
Reminders of Bouselham
Things Gone and Things Still Here

Midnight Mass
Midnight Mass
The Little House
The Dismissal
Here To Learn
Madame and Ahmed
Kitty
The Husband
At the Krungthep Plaza
The Empty Amulet
Bouayad and the Money
Rumor and a Ladder
The Eye
In the Red Room

Selected Later Stories
Monologue, Tangier 1975
Monologue, Massachusetts 1932
Monologue, New York 1965
Unwelcome Words
In Absentia
Too Far From Home

Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue
Fish Traps and Private Business
Africa Minor
Notes Mailed at Nagercoil
Mustapha and His Friends
A Man Must Not Be Very Moslem
The Rif, to Music
Baptism of Solitude
All Parrots Speak
The Route to Tassemsit
Glossary

Up Above The World

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