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Paul Bowles
Born
in Jamaica, Queens, NY, The United States
December 10, 1910
Died
November 18, 1999
Website
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The Sheltering Sky
— published 1949 — 73 editions |
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Let it Come Down
— published 1952 — 32 editions |
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The Spider's House
by — published 1955 — 30 editions |
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The Stories of Paul Bowles
by — published 2001 — 7 editions |
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Collected Stories, 1939-1976
by — published 1979 — 10 editions |
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Up Above the World
— published 1966 — 23 editions |
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The Delicate Prey and Other Stories
— published 1950 — 22 editions |
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Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World
by — published 1957 — 10 editions |
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A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories
— published 1992 — 7 editions |
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A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
by — published 1981 — 3 editions |
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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.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
― Paul Bowles, 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.”
― Paul Bowles
― Paul Bowles
“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.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
Polls
April 2015 New School Classic Group Read
What book should we read for our April 2015 New School Classic group read?
What book should we read for our April 2015 New School Classic group read?
1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages
1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages
1939, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, 264 pages
1957, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages
1954, 100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings, 128 pages
1952, Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, 236 pages
1931, Light in August by William Faulkner, 507 pages
1988, Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler, 350 pages
1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages
1903, The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, 320 pages
1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages
1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages
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