Three profoundly annoying American expatriates wander around Saharan Africa as, to our great delight, increasingly horrible things happen to them. Exhibit A in the case in favor of my Time Zone Rule, which posits that you should never leave the Eastern Time Zone of the United States. This is a big time cult novel. Folks babble incoherently about how the desert & a "culture other than their own" force the characters to confront their inner selves. Yeah right. (Reviewed:) Grade: (D) Tweet Websites:See also:General LiteratureModern Library Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century The Hungry Mind Review's 100 Best 20th Century Books -WIKIPEDIA: Paul Bowles -PROFILE: Paul Bowles in Tangier (Frederic Tuten, November 21, 2023, Paris Review) - -ESSAY: A Documentation by Florian Vetsch: The Garden by Paul Bowles (Jan Herman, 2/09/22, Arts Journal) Book-related and General Links: -Paul Bowles -FEATURED AUTHOR: NY Times Book Review -ESSAY : Desert of Memory : Brian Edwards looks at the legacy left in both Morocco and America by the expatriate's expatriate, Paul Bowles, nearly a year after the writer's death -- a legacy of controversy, and of sustained artistic achievement. (FFED) -INTERVIEW : with Paul Bowles biographer Cherie Nutting (Jerry Jazz) -REVIEW : of The Sheltering Sky (TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, December 4, 1949, NY times) -REVIEW: of YOU ARE NOT I: A PORTRAIT OF PAUL BOWLES by Millicent Dillon (LISA COHEN, Lingua Franca) |
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