The Stories of Paul Bowles - Paul Bowles Audiobook

Written by Paul Bowles
Read by Mike Ortego
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

[Chapterized m4b]

The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry—possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In “Pastor Dowe at Tecaté”, a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In “Call at Corazón”, an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their honeymoon in a South American jungle. In “Allal”, a boy’s drug-induced metamorphosis into a deadly serpent leads to his violent death. Here also are some of Bowles’ most famous works, including “The Delicate Prey”, a grimly satisfying tale of vengeance, and “A Distant Episode”, which Tennessee Williams proclaimed “a masterpiece”.

28 hours and 37 minutes

©2010 Paul Bowles (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers