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Spiders House - Paul Bowles
Spiders House
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780349101828 (0349101825)
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press+
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels, Travel, Literature, Cultural, Africa, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, 20th Century
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The major portion of this book, the first 80%, is an utterly enchanting meditation on an exotic land (Morocco) and the contrasts between the archaic and modernity. The writing is brilliant. But the final part of the story either wobbled or, in my view, just collapsed - as Bowles simply didn't know h...
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