Paul Bowles
Born
in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, The United States
December 10, 1910
Died
November 18, 1999
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The Sheltering Sky
115 editions
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1949
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Let It Come Down
48 editions
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1952
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The Spider's House
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42 editions
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1955
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The Stories of Paul Bowles
17 editions
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2001
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Up Above the World
46 editions
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published
1966
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The Delicate Prey and Other Stories
36 editions
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1950
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Collected Stories, 1939-1976
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18 editions
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1979
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Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World
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5 editions
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1957
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A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories
15 editions
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1992
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A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
8 editions
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1962
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“Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”
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“How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
Polls
November 2015 New School Classics Group Read
1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages
1988, Matilda by Roald Dahl, 240 pages
1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 434 pages
1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages
1988, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 197 pages
1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages
1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages
1957, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, 217 pages
1989, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 288 pages
1959, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 160 pages
1940, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, 222 pages
1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages
1932, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 352 pages
1928, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, 192 pages
1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages
1931, The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque, 352 pages
1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages
1974, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, 288 pages
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