false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782365m/216157.jpg 216157 6 Paul Bowles once said that a story should remain taut throughout, like a piece of string. That tense, stretched tone is the key to this collection of 17 eerie tales by the author best known for <i>The Sheltering Sky</i>. <i>The Delicate Prey</i> is dedicated: "For my mother, who first read me the stories of Poe." If Poe had lived in Mexico, and he'd had ice water running in his veins to counteract his feverish romanticism, he might have crafted something like these odd vignettes about human frailty and cruelty. The setting is a world where palm trees are like "shiny green spiders," where bats reel silently overhead in a jet-black sky, where a hot, relentless wind blows across deserted plazas. <p> As Tobias Wolff writes in <i>Esquire</i>, "<i>The Delicate Prey</i> is in fact one of the most profound, beautifully wrought, and haunting collections in our literature.... 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, capable of instantly modulating from farce to horror without a ruffle." 3011183 1950 The Delicate Prey: And Other Stories total:166|5:94|4:49|3:21|2:2|1:0| 166 733 203 13 4254295 2 1 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1219028184m/4254295.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4254295.The_Delicate_Prey_Other_Stories 5 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1971 Sun Aug 17 19:55:38 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 19:56:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 216157 0061137340 9780061137341 154 11 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782365m/216157.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216157.The_Delicate_Prey_And_Other_Stories 0 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sat Mar 21 20:08:37 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 20:11:17 -0700 2009 216157 0061137340 9780061137341 154 11 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782365m/216157.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216157.The_Delicate_Prey_And_Other_Stories 5 0 false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Jan 16 13:55:40 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 13:56:34 -0800 2009 216157 0061137340 9780061137341 154 11 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782365m/216157.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216157.The_Delicate_Prey_And_Other_Stories 5 0 false Tue Jul 17 19:26:52 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 19:51:53 -0700 2007 The Sheltering Sky; Let It Come Down; Up Above the World) and his excellent memoir Without Stopping, but his short stores are utterly strange, illuminated and cruel. They seem to have been written by a man in a fever with ice in his veins. My favori...more...]]> 216157 0061137340 9780061137341 154 11 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782365m/216157.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216157.The_Delicate_Prey_And_Other_Stories 4 0 false Sat Nov 03 17:34:04 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 06 22:07:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 216157 0061137340 9780061137341 154 11 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782365m/216157.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216157.The_Delicate_Prey_And_Other_Stories 5 0 false Wed Aug 27 07:15:19 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 19:29:38 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 07:15:19 -0700 2008 216157 0061137340 9780061137341 154 11 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782365m/216157.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216157.The_Delicate_Prey_And_Other_Stories 5 0 false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 29 15:50:15 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 22 10:37:07 -0700 2009 216157 0061137340 9780061137341 154 11 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782365m/216157.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216157.The_Delicate_Prey_And_Other_Stories 5 0 false Sat Oct 27 09:15:23 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 06:23:29 -0700 2007 216157 0061137340 9780061137341 154 11 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782365m/216157.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216157.The_Delicate_Prey_And_Other_Stories 3 0 false Thu Jul 10 16:22:27 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 16:22:58 -0700 2008 216157 0061137340 9780061137341 154 11 4.42 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782365m/216157.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216157.The_Delicate_Prey_And_Other_Stories 4 0 false Fri Mar 09 12:38:13 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 10 12:35:16 -0800 2007
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