Let it Come Down - Softcover

Bowles, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087685479X ISBN 13: 9780876854792

Publisher: HarpPeren, 2002

Synopsis

A novel from the pen of Paul Bowles, the author of such works as "The Sheltering Sky" and "Up Above the World". Nelson Dyar, a man without aims or values, reaches North Africa after giving up his job as a New York bank clerk and is drawn into the unfamiliar world of Tangier's expatriate community.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in New York in 1910, Paul Bowles is considered one of the most remarkable American authors of the twentieth century. He studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco, with his wife, Jane. His first novel, The Sheltering Sky, was a bestseller in the 1950s and was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1990. Bowles's prolific career included many musical compositions, novels, collections of short stories, and books of travel, poetry, and translations.

As well as running travel classics publisher Eland, Barnaby Rogerson has written, amongst books, A Traveller's History of North Africa (Weidenfeld, 1998), and put together several collections: one of Moroccan travel literature, Marrakech, the Red City (Sickle Moon, 2003), a pocket edition of English Orientalist verse, Desert Air, and a collection of contemporary travel writing, Meetings with Remarkable Muslims (Eland 2005).

Synopsis:

Nelson Dyar leaves his tame bank job in New York to work in a friend's travel agency in Tangier, only to learn that the agency is a front for illegal currency exchange.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarpPeren
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 087685479X
• ISBN 13: 9780876854792
• Binding: Paperback