Points in Time: Tales from Morocco - Softcover

Bowles, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061139637 ISBN 13: 9780061139635

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2013

Synopsis

Pub Date: 2006-10-31 Pages: 96 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US Six years before she wrote Little Women. Louisa May Alcott. in financial straits. entered Paulines Passion and Punishment. a novelette. in a newspaper contest Not only. did it win the 100 prize. but. published anonymously. it marked the first in the series of blood & thunder tales that would be her livelihood for years In Behind a Mask. editor Madeleine Stern introduces four Alcott thrillers:. Paulines Passion and Punishment. The Mysterious Key. The Abbots Ghost. and the title story. Behind a Mask. First published in one volume in 1975. they are regarded as Alcotts finest work in this genre. These gruesome. passionate stories reveal a darker side of Alcott. Yet. in their mastery of suspense and psychological drama. they attest to the multifaceted genius of their creator. While Alcott wrote many of t...

About this title

Product 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.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0061139637
• ISBN 13: 9780061139635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100