A Distant Episode
A Distant Episode conatins the best of Paul Bowle's short fiction, selected by the author. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Jay McInerney. His first novel, The Sheltering...
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A Distant Episode conatins the best of Paul Bowle's short fiction, selected by the author. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Jay McInerney. His first novel, The Sheltering Sky, was a best-seller in the 1950s and was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1990.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780880015011 (0880015012)
Publish date: February 1st 1996
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Bowles spent most of his life living in other countries, mostly Central America and North Africa. His stories often take place in those places and are about how being in the wrong place at the wrong time, misunderstanding the culture, and/or distrusting your own intuition can get you into some distu...
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