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Spider's House

Novel
BookPaperback
Ranking1199776inBelletristik
CHF19.90

Description

Set in Fez, Morocco, during that country's 1954 nationalist uprising, The Spider's House is perhaps Paul Bowles's most beautifully subtle novel, richly descriptive of its setting and uncompromising in its characterizations. Exploring once again the dilemma of the outsider in an alien society, and the gap in understanding between culturesrecurrent themes of Paul Bowles's writingsThe Spider's House is dramatic, brutally honest, and shockingly relevant to today's political situation in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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Details

ISBN/GTIN978-0-06-113703-7
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
FormatTrade paperback (UK)
Publishing date31/10/2006
Pages432 pages
LanguageEnglish
Article no.3848374
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.19460400
Product groupBelletristik
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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.