Yesterday's Perfume: An Intimate Memoir of Paul Bowles - Hardcover

Nutting, Cherie; Bowles, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609605739 ISBN 13: 9780609605738

Publisher: Clarkson Potter, 2000

Synopsis

A new illustrated biography of the reclusive expatriot writer takes readers to Morocco, where Bowles has lived for fifty years, to chronicle his life in North Africa in words and images. 10,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

CHERIE NUTTING is a photographer whose work has been published in major magazines as well as on many world music album covers. She lives in New York City.

With a career that spanned nearly all the major artistic movements of the twentieth century, PAUL BOWLES's influence as composer and author became as legendary as the man himself. Gore Vidal claimed that Bowles was "one of the three most interesting writers in the United States," an opinion that has gained credence in recent years. His influence on writers in the latter half of the century is enormous. From his first publication in the surrealist magazine transition, he was at the cutting edge of the avant-garde in both music and writing. His death in Tangier in 1999 marked the end of an era.

From the Inside Flap:

s ago, Cherie Nutting returned to Morocco. She had first visited it as a child with her mother, and the images of mystery and the desert had stayed with her, fueled over the years by accounts of expatriate life and by the literature created there. In Tangier again, she met the most famous of the expatriates and author of the classic The Sheltering Sky. Cherie became a friend of Paul Bowles and part of his circle. Over the years, the friendship deepened and widened.

Yesterday's Perfume is a memoir of that friendship and of Cherie's love of Morocco. She had unparalleled access to Paul, and recorded, journal-like, their conversations and the events of everyday life. Interwoven among Cherie's narrative are bits and pieces of Paul's previously unpublished writings -- diarylike fragments, retellings of dreams, little stories -- a sharp counterpoint in his inimitable voice.

Unlike most memoirs, Yesterday's Perfume is blessed with a wealth of ex

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarkson Potter
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0609605739
• ISBN 13: 9780609605738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 239