The Stories of Paul Bowles

[ MP3CD Format ] The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style and a dark exotic mood that is chilling, ironic, and wry. Here are sixty-one of his stories. Paul Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Tobias Wolff. From "The Delicate Prey" to "Too Far from Home," this definitive collection celebrates the Bowles’s masterful artistry in short fiction. "Bowles's tales are at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth. His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirely its own." --Tobias Wolff