false 172190 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 172190 3 166286 1996 A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories total:97|5:44|4:37|3:13|2:2|1:1| 97 412 128 13 7659 4.04 4719 548 57967598 2295948 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.27 88 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 5 0 false Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 12:55:04 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 11:35:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 40043190 199354 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 5 0 false Sun Dec 21 06:16:02 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 18:53:21 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 06:16:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 42481439 1888073 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 4 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Fri Jan 09 12:02:33 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 12:04:14 -0800 2009 10 37133682 586014 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 5 0 false Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 13:23:30 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 12:34:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2789309 175164 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 5 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 21:14:13 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 23:50:23 -0800 2009
Bowles himself writes that he attempted to write about places (you know, geographical) and let characters just emerge from them. I think that's exactly how his stori...more...]]> 32473532 1489467 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 5 0 false Tue Sep 09 16:30:42 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 16:43:27 -0700 2008
AWESOME ANTHOR WHO COULD BRING TALE INTO LIFE IS ONE OF MY FOVOURITE WRITERS.]]> 3031003 75567 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Fri Jul 13 10:20:29 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 10:23:20 -0700 2007 33380103 1487920 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 5 0 false Sat Sep 20 15:50:24 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 15:50:46 -0700 2008 ]]> 8488580 589916 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 5 0 false Wed Oct 31 12:46:51 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 12:49:13 -0700 2007 4657327 285185 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 5 0 false Thu Aug 16 14:19:29 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 05:33:27 -0800 2009 14752537 196651 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 4 0 false Wed Feb 06 13:37:43 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 13:41:09 -0800 2008 24087424 864090 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 5 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Mon Jun 09 14:26:49 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 07:14:08 -0700 2008 13548749 372370 1136098 0880015012 9780880015011 1 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181277352m/1136098.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181277352s/1136098.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1136098.A_Distant_Episode 4.00 8 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 25 13:57:24 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 13:58:01 -0800 2008 80012199 63721 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 0 0 false Sat Dec 05 16:33:44 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 16:33:44 -0800 2009 79135063 2963717 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 0 0 false Fri Nov 27 13:02:25 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 13:02:25 -0800 2009 79105175 2964471 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 0 0 false Fri Nov 27 05:21:55 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 05:22:01 -0800 2009 78004754 314238 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 0 0 false Mon Nov 16 15:31:40 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 15:31:40 -0800 2009 76963613 2910634 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 0 0 false Fri Nov 06 17:53:09 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 17:53:09 -0800 2009 74344817 269132 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

]]> 1996 0 0 false Mon Oct 12 19:52:05 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 15 18:34:15 -0800 2009 74053180 2590622 172190 0061137383 9780061137389 12 <![CDATA[A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830m/172190.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172398830s/172190.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172190.A_Distant_Episode_The_Selected_Stories 4.25 97 qaouaji who serves him tea. The strange becomes the sinister; the lonely becomes a hallucinatory horror. When the unspeakable finally comes to pass (the dogs, the guns, the evil men), it's a relief.

The characters in these stories are shaped and fated by place. "The pleasure of writing stories, as opposed to novels," Bowles observes in the preface, "lies in the freedom to allow protagonists to invent their own personalities as they emerge from the landscape." The collection that ensues, chosen by the author and written over a 40-year period, reflects this creed. And the improvisational feel of the works comes precisely from the power place is accorded as the dominant force on characters and their actions.

Characters adrift in menacingly unfamiliar places--Algeria, Marrakech, Colombia--are people exiled or en route to exile. For two such travelers, this might be a quintessential Bowles moment:

He: "You think you humor me so much? I haven't noticed it." His voice was sullen.

She: "I don't humor you at all. I'm just trying to live with you on an extended trip in a lot of cramped little cabins on an endless series of stinking boats."

Bowles's delivery--deadpan, without affectation, hyperbole, or discourse--sets up a disconcerting and delicious tension. Fate, in each story, is allowed to play itself out with no authorial summing-up, no interjection against the intractable landscape. Remember that Bowles country acknowledges a debt to the sensibilities of such literary peers as Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jay McInerney. Don't look for meaning in the obvious places. Let it emerge like insights and connections made from the stuff of the subconscious. Regardless, this collection offers the good old-fashioned experience of excellent fiction--from a writer who will blow your assumptions about the world wide open.

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